The evening world., 1894-09-25
POLICE HUNT A WILD STEER.
Patrol Wagons Chase 1t Through
Suburban Chicago Streets. .
A Bulldog Joins the Pursuit and
Finally Goes Mad.

CHICAGO, Sept. ga Texas steer
rave Chicago policemen a wild chase
last night and caused intense excite
ment in the Stock Yards. Englewood,
Grand Crossing, Woodlawn, Hyde Park,
windsor Park and South Shore, through
which 1t passed in It's wild career. The
steer was one among dozen carloads
of the widest animals that ever came
into the Stock Yards, and escaped while
being unloaded at the pens.
Several mounted cowboys started in
pursuit and chased 1t south until 1t
was lost in Englewood. Then the police
we're notified and requested to aid in the
search. The message was sent to all
South Side stations with an order to
shoot the animal on sight. officers in
several patrol wagons took UP the chase,
and frequent shots and calls in the di-
rection of Stony Island avenue showed
where the bovine terror was heading,
and the wagons dashed along in hot
Soon the animal and it's pursuers en-
the Gathering hoofs and the rafting
wagons woke up the sleepy patrolmen,
and another. call for help was made.
This time the Hyde Park wagon re-
tired and worn out the police finally
saw the animal going at a gallop along
Seventy-fifth street and turn down
Bond avenue.
they started in pursuit, and as they
turned down Bond avenue they saw a
little child in the street and the animal
making a direct line for 1t. The men
blew their whistles and attracted the
attention of the child, which, seeing
Its danger, ran screaming into yard.
The steer. then kept on Bond avenue
and turned into South Shore, Here
stood the South Chicago patrol-wagon
directly in its path. Not hesitating a
moment, the steer lowered its head and
made a charge.
The policemen drew their revolvers
and began firing, while the driver turned
the horses and drove into the woods; In
the melee Sergt Cooney lost his helmet
and several Of the policemen lost their
nerve. When the wagon reached the
shelter. Of the woods the policemen got
Policemen McCauley, Beilfuss and Trad
den came up in the rear and fired vol
ley into the animal. but the latter had hat
caught sight Of fram 6sSind
tree and Immediately made a charge
and the antics of O'Keefe and the steer
distracted the minds Of the other mer
so they could not shoot.
O'Keefe played hide and seek with
the steer until he could get a chance &c
run, when he lodged behind another
tree. Then all the men opened fire and
at close range fired one hundred shots
before they laid the enemy low. Here
came In a curious part or the chase
Residents of Windsor Park and South
Shore had witnessed the chase and they
turned out on foot and in carriages tc
assist. A butcher had set his bull dos
on the trail early in the. game, and II
had hung on. When the steer was
killed the bull dog suddenly went stark
mad and, frothing at the mouth, seized
a horse by the throat and held on with
in its head made 1t release its hold and
the horse terribly lacerated, was lee
away to be killed.
Lieut. Wagner had once been q
butcher, and thinking he ought to have
something for his palms he took out his
knife and neatly dressed the ANNA
and hung II up on a tree. He wen
back with an express wagon and tool
the beef to a meat market in Irondale
1t will be distributed to-day among the
men who assisted in the capture.