The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-07

An Indian Chief Saves white Boy from
Being Crushed to Death.

An Indian Chief Saves . White Boy from
Being Crushed to Death.
A number of the bulls began to bei-
low, and to throw dirt with their hoofs.
Their noise and stir started herd
host of them come tearing down the
slope, with long, lunging jumps, some
of them fiinging their heels and tailn
high in the air. jumping sidewisc amt
bawling in mad, freakish way, just a.
cattle sometimes plunge down hill
half in play, half in a state of nervous
excitement. There was now perfect
bedlam of noise, and clouds of dust
we're rising on all hands. The chief
motioned to me to shoot.
carried q short, hick-barreled bIf
Salo-gun-it was before the days of tie
breach-loaders-which threw an ounce
and half slug. eimed at a bull some
30 feet away, who offered a broadsidc
shot in his paving. The heavy ball
knocked him off his feet, and the next
moment he was at the last gasp.
The chief also fired his rifle, with
what effect did not sec, for our shots
did not startle even the nearest ami
nials, so great was the noise of their
own Rawlings, and so thick the cloud
of dust they had raised. A mad era =
seemed suddenly to have possessed
me whole herd, for a great crowd had
pressed down cut of the ravine, and
hundreds were plunging down the
bluffs. The situation had suddenly be-
efa nj In dor
The chief, in alarm, sprang to his
feet, and threw the wolf-skin from his
head. did the same. He had evident
ly counted on scattering the buffalo,
and frightening them Off by our first
shots.
Instead, tumbling mass of them
had gathered about the animal which
had shot, and, excited to greater
frenzy than ever by the smell of blood,
were filling the air with hoarse, deep
quavering roars, which made the
ground tremble under us.
The dust from the multiplying num-
bcrs which surged in toward us per-
vaded as it was with alkali, set me into
paroxysm of sneezing and coughing
In spite of my intense alarm. 1t now
onveloped us in SO thick cloud that we
could practically see nothing. Suo7
denly the chief seized me by the arm.
Come he said, "we go quick!" and
we started off at run. We lodged
hither and thither to get out of the way
of plunging, bawling animals, many
Of which lunged past within arm.
| reach.
The dust had grown continuously
thicker, and my eyes, filed with smart.
ing alkali, failed me utterly before we
had rui, so yards. l was again seize
by violent fit of coughing and sneez-
ing.
l shouted to Little Bear, between
,ny coughings, that could not see. He
| answered only: I'VE go quick
quick!" and. keeping n tight grip up ~
ny arm, jerked me this way and thai,
as we rushed ahead.
| But, active and powerful as he was,
he could not save me in my blindness
from collision. was hit by one of the
huge animals and knocked over. The
creature struck me on the left side
| and l was wrenched from the chief,
grasp and sent rolling over and over il
the dust. In fact, | was knocked
brcathless, hait-stunned, and could not
have risen ut once of my own accor !
l should have been run over and
crushed but for the chief. AS it was
| had just sens, enough to know that
| was jerked from the ground, tossed
upward, and borne forward upon III.
shoulders.
! He raE like deer, carrying me as il
: had been a papoose. jumping and
lodging this way and that, among thu
| throng of animals, whose rumbline
tread sounded in my ears like the nut
| tering of thunder.
Twice he was run over and thrown
and we both measured our tuI
| lengths, but h was on his feet again
in an instant. and, lifting me as before
darted ahead. seemingly unhurt. How
lie managed to keep his eyesight and
| his bearings in that choking cloud
end among that excited mass of AM
mails is, and always will be, mystery
| to me.
But ne did il.
He carried me out of that believing
crazy crowd of animals, and set me
| upon my feet upon the hill above them
| irving utterance to huge grunt OF
| satisfaction when he found that could
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