The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09
PAGES 8 TO 10.

charged him in front ripped him in the
sides and rear. and he fell back into tho
writing mass. minute more and one bear
was lifeiess, shapeless mass. with tho
yellow-brown fends ripping his hide into
ribbons and cracking his bones like pieces
of glass.
While this was going on the remaining
bears and the lion had their paws and
jaws fun of business. The bears still safe
~ perched on their respective stumps. but
were kept busy knocking off the peccarlea
which were doing their ievel best 10 dis
lodge them. Half a dozen were lying on
their backs, dead. while others We're
jumping about wounded. yet mad and un-
conquerabie as ever; while the bears them
selves had not escaped scot free. A num-
Der of scarlet spots on their black hair
showed where the peccaries had eft inn
prints of their scimetarlike tusks. One OF
the peccaries caught a grip on the hind
quarters of one of the bears and hung
ON like grim death. The bears foothold
was lost and he fell squarely into the jaws
of the swapping mob below, Then follow
ed another battle on the ground, with the
bear underneath and the wild hogs. in
a yellow bank above, swapping and strug-
glng to get at their enemy. The bear
began to work his hind feet and bodies
of wild hogs began TO fly upward and out
ward. ripped from end to end by the claws
of the bear. The bear at last got on his
He sat there and beat the peccaries away,
knocking fully a dozen into kingdom come
before the hogs succeeded In overcoming
him.
The last living bear was now attacked
by redoubled fury and an increased force
Of peccaries. For fully five minutes tho
battle ragged, and the bear succeeded In
wiping out at least half a dozen pee
carries He had no chance of escape, how
ever, and was In che end literally torn ia
shreds by the enraged peccaries.
Meanwhile thirty or more of the pee
carries not mixed up In the fight with the
bears were either strung out over the field
trying to get at the cowboys on the fenca
or attacking the Mexican lion The long.
1.-THE body of the lion had thus far escaped
serious injury, having received only few
gashes from the tusks OF his enemies.
while four or five of the wild hogs were
lying at the foot OF the stump on whien
the panther very early IN the fight found
il necessary 20 take refuge. But as the
raging peccarcs drew off from the dead
hears they turned their attention TO tho
lion, swarming about the stump four or
five deep. The lion soon saw that with
enemies jumping at him from all sides he
could not much longer retain his position.
Suddenly, with an ear-piercing scream, he
sprang out and into the midst of the
swarm OF hogs, where, slashing right and
left, he cut swath. ripping open and kill
their surprise. In a second the lion was
out Of the mass and back on the stump.
Twice was the same feat performed. Each
| time the lion dashed downward, knocking
| and slashing the life out OF a number. and
| then jumping over their backs out OF
| reach. and It began to look as though IL
| would end In his whipping the lot and get
| ting away without great damage; plt
| when he sprang down the third. time
| his chain became entangled In the body OF
| a dead peccary, and when he sprang up
| to regain the stump the weight Of the pee
| cary checked his leap. and he fell In the
| very center Of the yellow mass. The pee
carries completely covered every inch OF
the lion in a second, and In half minute
they had torn him into pieces.
1t had been a tremendous battle. This
ground was strewn with bits of bears ana
lion, while dead and wounded peccaries
| to the number Of at least sixty lay on the
| battlefield. The Wild hogs that escaped
fatal injury were still raging for battle.
| The cowboys, for once at least, had seen
| as much fight as they cared for, but they
| didn't propose 10 let the peccares escape.
| They were dangerous customers The boys
| opened fire with their six-shooters, and
| didn't stop until the last peccary fell with
| It's vicious snout swapping between tbs
| rails at the legs of the men.