Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-09-26
CHASING 4 WILD STEER
A Texas Longhorn Causes Ex-
 citement Tn Chicago.
COWBOYS AND POLICE IN PURSUIT.

The Animal Escapes While Being Un-
 loaded At the Stoolcyards and Takes
 In Large Portion of the City on It's
 Angry Charge Before 1t Is Captured
 and Killed.
 CHICAGO, Sept. 96.-A Texas steer gave some of the policemen of Chicago the widest chase they have had for many A day during the early hours Tuesday morning. It was also tho cause Of the most intense excitement among the people of the Stockyards, Engle- wood, Grand Crossing, Woodland, Hyde Park, Windsor Park and South Shore, through which it passed in it's wild charge.
 The steer was one among a dozen car loads of the widest animals that ever came into the stocltyards. The animal escaped while being unloaded at the pens. Several mounted cowboys started in pursuit of the animal and chased it until it was lost in Englewood
 Then, for fear lest the beast might do some person harm, the police were noti- fled and requested to aid in the search and capture. The message was sent to all the stations on the South Side and transmitted to the officers. The order wss issued to shoot the animal on sight. Several patrol wagons of officers took up the chase and frequent shots in the direction of Stony Island avenue and loud police calls showed in which di- Eection the bovine terror was heading, and the wagons dashed along in hot pur- suit.
 Soon the animal and it's pursuers en. tered the precincts of Hyde park, and the clattering hoofs and the rattling wagons woke up the sleepy patrolmen and another call for help was made. This time the Hyde Park wagon re- sponded.
 Day began to dawn. and the crowd worn out, the police finally saw the an- final going in gallop along Seventy fifth street and turn down Bond avenue. They started ill pursuit, and as they turned down Bond avenue they saw a little child in the street and the animal making direct line for 1t. The officers blew their whistles and attracted the attention of the child, which, seeing its danger, ran screaming into yard.
 The steer next turned into South Shore. Here stood the South Chicago patrol wagon, directly in its path. Not hesitating @ moment, the steer lowered its head and made charge.
 The policemen drew their revolvers and began firing and the driver turned the horses about and drove into the woods. In the melee Sergeant Coney lost his helmet and several of the police lost their nerve.
 When the wagon reached the shelter of the woods the policemen got out and prepared to ambush the enemy. Police men McCauley, Beilfuss and Tradder came up in the rear and fired yolie5 into tho animal, but the latter hat caught sight of Policeman O'Keefe'i head sticking out from behind tree ant immediately made charge, and the an tics of O'Keefe and the steer distracted the minds of the other men so they could not shoot. O'Keefe played hide and-seek with the steer until he could get chance to run, when he dodget behind another tree.
 Then all the men opened fire and a close range fired 100 shots before the1 laid the enemy low.
 Residents of Windsor Park and Soutt Shore had witnessed the chase and thej turned out on foot and in carriages tt assist. A butcher had set his bull dog on the trail early in the game and it hat hung on. When the steer was killed the bull dog suddenly went stark mad and, frothing at the mouth, attacked horse and seizing it by the throat hell on with grip like death. A half dozen bullets in It's head made it release iti l hold and the horse, terribly iacerated,