Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-26
Ayers Hair Vigor.
REIN FURBAY'S WILDCATS.
One Ate the Other and Then There Was
Peace Were Consigned to a Well Known
Martins Ferry Man.

One Ate the Other and Then There Was
Peace Were Consigned to "a Well Known
Martins Ferry Man.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Messenger w. d. Gambel, of Wells,
Fargo & Co. g express, sat in one corner
Of his car early yesterday morning on
the trip from Kansas City east, holding
a revolver in each hand while he await
ed the outcome of savage encounter
between two wild cats Gagged in wood
en- crate, scarcely wide enough for the
animals to turn about.
The fight lasted an hour and when
the growls and snarls had subsidized
enough to give the messenger courage
to make an investigation, he found in
place of the smaller of the beasts which
had been consigned to him, a,few tufts
of hair and pieces of bone-the fight
had been to the death.
The larger animal after killing its
mate, had devoured its body /.
The cats had been shipped from Fall
Brook, Cal, to Rein Furbay, Martins
Ferry, Ohio, and had apparently lived
in peace during the journey over the
mountains eastward until they were
transferred in Kansas City.
Then Messenger Gambel took charge
of them, having been nrst assured by
the messenger on the other route of
their mild disposition anc harmless
ness.
But soon after the train on the Santa
Fe had left Kansas City, growls and
Kisses from the cage, the bars of which
were suspiciously slender, made Gam
bel wary and nervous.
He Immediately decided to feed the
animals, and according to orders threw
into the crate a lot of cooked beef,
seeking safety in another end Of tie
car.
The beef. however, only provoked
the impending trouble, and in few
minutes the messenger was terrified to
hear the sounds of struggle of fero-
cious intensity.
The slender bars on the cage bent
outward under the pressure of the
fighting animals, and threatened at
every moment to snap and release their
blood-thirsty prisoners.
Gambel hurried to his chest and re-
enforced his means of defense with
another revolver, kept for emergencies
of a different nature.
Then he stood at some distance from
the scene of the struggle. ready to act
in case the animals were freed, and,
forgetting their quarrel. should unite
in an attack on him.
For an hour the beasts fought, with
out a, moments cessation. Shrieks
and bowls which seemed to grow loud
er as the battle progressed made the
frightened messenger grasp his wea=.
pens more closely with the expecta-
ton of having to use them at the next
instant
But after a while the noise grew
fainter and soon all that could be heard
was the sound of low snarls and the
crashing of bones.
When the messenger took his Ian
tern and peered between the bars there
was but one wild cat to be seen in the
cage. On his arrival in Chicago Cam
bel was confronted with the problem
of explaining the absence OF one of the
animals. as be had receipted for two
before the train left Kansas City. Last
evening the surviving beast was billed
as two wild cats" and was started
on its way to Ohio on train No. IL on
the Erie railroad, in charge OF Messen-
ger II. D. Parks.
Yesterday the vicious animal with
the caRnibalistic instincts was the OBJ
ject Of much curiosity In the express
room Of the Dearborn station. He
was an immense specimen Of his kind
and weighed fifty pounds He showed
evidences Of the conflict, one eye hay-
ing been scratched by the long claws of
hfs adversary. while deep wounds on
his neck and body were plentiful. The
other wild cat, Messenger Gambel says.
was smaller and weighed forty pounds.
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