The San Francisco call., 1898-12-23
CHECKED BY BUGLE CALL.
Stampeding Cavalry Horses Obey the
 Familiar Command.

The blasts from one lone bugle mo- mentarily checked the stampede of 800 loose cavalry horses of the First IeXas Cavalry at the entrance to Fort sam Houston the other morning. Five hundred obedient animals implicitly obeyed the Halt and Attention" The remaining 3O0 however, dashed off toward the city, overrunning the streets ana collldlhs "lth vehicles and pedestrians.
 The animals were to have been taken Io the cavalry target range Tor uay 5 grazing. They were loose in the corral, awaiting the arrival ot the orncers in charge, when a caValryman entered the inclosure, carelessly leaving the gate a1ar The animals almost immediately began to file out of the corral three and four abreast In the commotion and excite ment that followed the animals broke down a portion of the corral fence, ana through this they charged, until Tn d lew minutes the wide street was filled With a mass of confused, loose cavalry horses.
 It is a distance of three blocks from the corral to the adjutant's headquarters, and surged. At the. first alarm Captain John Green of Troop l and two men mounted their horses and at one bound cleared the iron fence around the headquarters for short cut to the corral Riding before the stampede the three men wildly shook their hats in the faces of the leaders of the herd and sought after the usual cowboy mode to yell and whoop the wild caval- cade into control. But their mounts were borne and driven forward by the irresist- ible surge of the 800 stampeding horses:
 At this juncture Bugler Mcllhenny or K Troop, with splendid presence of mind, rushed to the gate and sounded the com mand Column lefty The effect was mag, ical. Column left'' had been trumpeted at that particular spot every day for nearly two months. It was the command that brought the regiment in column fore I nation through, the wide gateway, into the upper drill grounds The effect of this familiar bugle call was instantly discern ible. There was a sudden checking up, shifting, rearing and plunging into one another among the dense mass of horses. Many of the animals were too wildly ex- cited either to hear or obey the bugle horses checked up and fought their way out of the demoralized cavalcade, and as implicitly obeyed the command as if sad dled and mounted.
 leaders. trotting through the gateway, followed by frequent punches of from forty to fifty each, until 800 cavalry horses were running at large over the parade ground.
 Three hundred of the animals. how ever madly rushed past the gate and long in their wake marked the route. that the animals took. As the stampede reached the more densely populated sec ton of the city, it divided into punches, and setting the inhabitants momentarily wild with fright. One bunch was run into by passenger train and three horses were killed. One horse dashed out its brains against a telephone pole, and another in colliding with a carriage be- came impaled on the shafts. Several pedestrians were run down and more or less injured. A detail of fifty men was at once sent out, and in the course of the day they rounded up all save thirty-five of the runaways.
 While the uncomfortable horses were dashing toward the city Bugler Me Ilhenny turned to the 800 obedient animals on the parade ground. "Haltr' and At tention!' were bugled over the parade field, with wonderfully successful results, and in few minutes small detail of men rode up and easily drove the discip- plined steeds back into the corral-St Louis Globe-Democrat.