The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-04-01

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overturned cars; other cattle
with dropping tails staggered
and linped about the tracks,
while whole cattle dead, and
portions Of dismembered cattle
could be seen on every side of
the wreck. The crew of the
! passenger train had already
learned from the men in charge
of the cattle train something
of what had occurred and COM
municated it to the passengers.
No human being had been SER
iously injured by the breaking
wheel.
| Whilequestions and answers
were passing back and forth
the attention Of everybody was
suddenly diverted to a dramatic
scene which opened just in
front of the passenger train
locomotive. Two large range
bulls, one nearly a dull red all
over, and the other brindled,
had extricated themselves al
most uninjured from the mess
of wreckage, and came into col
lision in the middle of the rail
road bed. Each Immediately
backed away from the other,
! paving the frozen ground and
swaying his tail from side to
side in a way that indicated
anger and a disposition to fight.
Plainly the bulls blamed each
other for the toss they had
been given out of their comfort
able quarters.
Having secured a dozen or
SO feet of leeway for a charge,
the horned monsters lowered
their heads simultaneously,
mooed low but fierce, and went
together with a rush. There
followed a sharp crack and a
loud thump as the horns and
foreheads of the beasts came
into contact, a momentary tus-
sic, and then a kind of recoil.
The bulls were evidently daz-
ed, but still full of the spirit of
battle.
They mooed once more, eyed
each other furiously, and back
ed away second time. No
body dared interfere with them.
This charge was more vicious,
if anything, than the first, and
also more destructive. At the
moment of impact the fascin-
ated spectators heard a loud
snap, and when the fighting
: bovines parted, as if by mutual
consent, the stout horn of one
of them lay upon the roadbed
broken off almost at the butt
The brindle bull had lost one
: of it's weapons in the fray, but
was not beaten yet.
, In the charge that insued
however, he was not quite sc
t forceful as in the two previous
encounters, while the strength
of the red bull seemed in NJ
| wise diminished. Brindle
went back upon his haunche:
when Red butted him this time
: and directly afterwards The
: sharp horns of the triumphan
/, bull were goring his entrails
) A feeling of pity prompted one
. of the bystanders to attempt tt
| drive the red bull away from
his vanquished foe, which caus
| ed that belligerent beast t.
!, evince a desire to fight any
l thing in the neighborhood, bi
, ped, or quadruped. This spiri
: Of arrogance. drew upon him ;
: bullet from the rifle of a militia
: man, who had armed and par
: TALLY clothed himself, and with
: a louder moo than ever, the rec
bull fell by the side of his dy
: ing antagonist.
5 The end of the singular bull
: fight caused the passenger
: generally to clothe themselves
! and render what assistance
: they could to the train crew:
: in clearing live cattle out of tht
: wreck. Seven hours elapsed
: before the railroad was agar
in shape for a resumption o
traffic, and in the meantime {
: great many live cattle escaped
/, The dead ones have since
!, furnished oxtail soup and othe.
: edible de1icacies to the gloat
r ing inhabitants of Granite.
; SEED grain notes at GAZETTE Office