The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-10


the leading group also some were faster
than others, and this group ran in a
diamond shape, with two immense steers
leading all. When Mr.. Wilson and his
companion reached the TWO leading steers
they began shooting revolvers close TO
them, and In that way the bunch was made
to oblique, and as the leading buch OF cat
tie obiiqued the main stampede obllqued,
and the first step I'm milling had been
taken. BY this time the cattle were get
ting tired. Nearly five miles had been
covered, and The breath of the leaders was
coming short and painfully; but they were
rushing on, because the front cattle at
this time knew as a matter of fact their
only safety was in keeping up the run.
Those behind were coming, and they were
in the majority, and the leaders were COM
PEELED to run There was real danger for
the forward members of the stampede
In the invoice articles contained in the
regulation outfit there is always some
kind of stimulants. and but for the stimu-
lants contained in Mr.. Wilson'S outfit it is
possible that The stampede would have
been halted without disaster He had
Mexican along, one of the best cowboys
in the Southwest. This Mexican and his
horse always reminded those VINO saw nm
ride of the fabed Centaur. He rode Tar
forward and bent over so that he and his
horse appeared to be one animal No
horse, however rugged, wild and wooliy'
had ever been able to unseat him. This
Aztec had been 10 the little brandy runIet
100 often and had filled and emptied his
lin cup with surreptitious intoxicants, 50
that his usual excellent judgment went
awry. When he succeeded in getting
mounted, after having FUNDED with his
bride good deal, he was far in the rear,
and the stampede had gone past him, so
that when he overlook the rear end he
passed to the front on The other side and
rode on the wrong flank. When he reach
ed the head of the herd he was just in
lime to defeat the maneuver then under
execution of bending the moving mass
from a straight line TO a seni-circle. Re
volver in hand, disregardng the other men,
he began shooting in the face of the wild
steers and the effect of this was to
siraighten the run and bring the advance
straight toward a precpice. This precipice
was a wash in the prairie, forming deep
ravine fully thirty yards wide, and in
shorter time than it takes to tell of this
contretemps, the head of the column was
pouring over horrible cascade of beef
plunging to destruction, while fleeing an
imaginary danger.
When Mr.. Wilson and his lieutenants saw
that it was impossible 10 save their cattle
they saved themselves by dexterously
turning at right angles at full speed and
riding out of the way, They next return
ed TO the flank and held a coun-
Gil of war A few seconds de-
cided them, and ell hands commenced
shooting into the herd, the object now be-
ing to build a breastWork of carcasses and
save the rear end from the destruction
that had overtaken the front The gully
was nearly fun of cattle by this time.
They were snorting and believing, crash
ing and tearing, and still heaping up; and
when the firing began the wounded ones
tumbled over on the others, the gully, like
the sunken road al Waterloo was br.dged
by carcasses. The herd surged up like an
ocean billow. and bent now, because it
could not do otherwise The serni-circle
was formed, and Wilson and his men
crossed the gully below and rode around
the opposite side and recrossed; and in a
short time they had the cattle halted
forming an incomplete letter o. and there
they stood blowing, believing and SILVER
ing. All hands remained on watch all
night, and in the morning, when a count
was made it was ascertained that 200
head were missing There were afterward
2,7C0 pairs of horns taken from the gully
1t was called Stampede Gully for many
years afterward and, perhaps, wiz all
ways, with some people, be remembered
by that name"