San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-25
WILD TEXAS STEER
GIVES THE CHICAGO P0-
LICE A CHASE.
SERGEANT COONEY LOST HIS Hell
MET AND SEVERAL COPS
LOST THEIR NERVE.
Captured by a Bull Dog, Which
Afterwards Went Mad and
Chewed up a Horse.

CHICAGO, Sept. PA Texas
steer gave some Of the policemen OF
Chicago the widest chase they
have had for many day. 1t was
also the cause of the most intense
excitement among the people of
the stockyards, Englewood, Grand
Crossing, Woodlawn, Hyde Park,
Windsor Park and South Shore,
through which it passed on its
wild charge. The steer was one
among a dozen car loads of the
widest animals that ever came
into the stockyards. The animals
escaped while being unloaded at
the pens. Several mounted cow
boys started in pursuit of the ami
NAL and chased it through the
streets until it was lost in Engle-
wood. Then for fear lest the beast
might do some person harm, the
police were notified 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 was issued to shoot the ami
NAL on sight. Several patrol
wagons of officers took up the chase
and frequent shots in the direction
of Stoney Island avenue and loud
calls showed in which direction the
bovine terror was heading and the
wagons dashed along in hot pur-
suit. Soon the animal and it's pur-
suers entered the precincts OF Hyde
Park and the clamoring hoofs and
the rattling wagons woke up the
sleepy patrolmen and another call
for help was made. This time the
Hyde Park patrol wagon respond
ed. Day began to dawn and the
crowd of worn out police finally
saw the animal going in gallop
along 10Th street and turn down
Bond avenue. They started in pur-
suit and as they turned down Bond
avenue, they saw little child in
the street and the animal making
a direct line for it. The men blew
their whistles and attracted the
attention of the child, which, see
ing it's danger, ran screaming into
a yard. The steer then kept on
Bond avenue and turned into South
Shore. Here stood the South Chi
cago patrol wagon directly in it's
path. Not hesitating a moment
the steer lowered it's head and
Cd oh
drew their revolvers and began
firing, while the driver turned the
horses and drove into the woods.
In the melee Sergeant C0oney lost
his helmet and several OF the po-
licemen lost their nerve. When the
wagon reached the shelter of the
woods the policemen got out and
prepared to ambush the enemy.
Policemen McCouley, Beilfus and
Traden came up in the rear and
fired a volley into the animal, but
the latter had caught sight OF Po-
liceman OKeefe's head sticking
out from behind tree and imme-
diately made a charge and the an
tics of OKeefe and the steer dis
tracted the minds of the other men
so that they could not shoot.
O'Keefe played hide and seek with
the steer until he could get q
chance to run, when he lodged be-
hind another tree. Then all the
men opened fire, and at close range
fired 100 shots before they laid
the enemy low. He became a
curious part of the chase. Resi-
dents of Windsor Park and South
Shore had witnessed the chase and
they turned cut on foot and in car
riages to assist. A butcher had set
his bull dog on the trail early in
the game and it had hung on.
When the steer was killed the bull
dog suddenly went stark mad and
frOthing at the mouth attacked a
horse and Selling it by the throat,
held on with grip like death. A
half dozen bullets in its head made
it release its hold and the horse,
terribly lacerated, was led away to
be killed. Lieut.. Wagner took out
his knife and neatly dressed the
animal and hung it on tree. He
went back with an express wagon
and took the steer to a meat mar
ket in Chicago. The meat will be |
distributed among the men who |
assisted in the capture.