Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-07-26
RED BULL ON THE RAMPAGE.
He Attacked Farmer Hcardslcy ana
broke Three Of His Ribs.
CNew York SUM

William Bcardsley. who has farm be-
in bed with three ribs broken, and Farmer
Evarts's bull is confined in a stall. His
old time liberty % roam the fields that
adiOinod the Evarts farm has been cur
tailed. at least until Beardsey's bones
have knit again. the bruises all over his
body disappeared. and the people in that
region have forgotten the encounter be
tween Beardsley and the Holstatn on
Sunday afternoon.
Reports as to the duration Of this meet
ing vary. Beardsley is inclined 10 cal
ii half an hour his wife thinks II was at
least fifteen minutes. and the hired men.
allowing for their excitement, are willing
10 let ii 20 at ten minutes. Some Of the
neighbOrs, who enyiously watched the
reporters vending their way 10 the
Bearisley farm. say that the whole affair
was matter of only few moments
over almost before they realized II had
begun.
But IL was really a sharp struggle.
The bull is red, and in breed Is a Hoi-
stein crossed with plain Essex county.
lie has proved superior 70 any fence that
his owner has built about him. For three
years out of the five ne has lived Bloom
field. or that part Of 1t that is half Bloom
field and half Newark, and is called
Soho to prevent hard feelings, has been
his home.
Wooden palngs he butted down. and
over hlrbed wire he leaped as readily as
a chamois. So the residents Of Soho were
not surprised wherever they happened 10
meet him, either in their own fields or
in the road. But he was quiet. and had
never been known TO chase" anybody,
50 the farmers about say. He was there
fore not disturbed in his freedom. When
the neighbors saw him, they said merely:
That's Evarts's bull out again." and let
him take his own time about going home.
The particular diversion of Evarts's bull
was to leap the half-doZen harbed-wire
fences that interviewed between his pas
ture and that In which Beardsley, who Il
a dairyman, kept his six cows. The Hol-
stein used 10 leap over the wires, careen
around the field, and then jump over the
fence into the adjoining pasture. But
when he made his last jump the cows
followed him. SO Beardsley naturally OBJ
iected 10 the bull I'm his field. He was
around last Sunday In the back pasture
PREPARING to leap over the fence into the
field In which the cows were grazing.
Beardsley saw him and started down from
his house to drive him away.
BeardSley hdu done tnls DcIore, anu 'ht
animal had been docile. When Boards
ley jumped over the fence this time the
bull turned on him. Then began an en-
counter. which Beardsley described In
these words:
II saw from the look In his eyes that he
was mad, and wanted TO get out OF the
field as quickly as i could. But i had
chased him half across before he turned
on me, and j knew that / could never
make the fence before he overlook me.
There was a tree about twenty feet of,
and made up my mind TO start for that.
So turned and ran.
TT seemed 10 me that ] had only to
reach out my hands and clutch the tree.
when ! felt a blow In the back which
sent me flying past the tree as though
had been shot out of cannon. / could
see nothing for a second. When / opened
my eyes again the fence and the tree were
in front Of me.
II felt that at the rate ] was travelling
I would not stop this side OF Newark.
But 1 felt myself fall. far down. Us