Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-03

sounds and the horrible scenes they
suggested. The beasts were shot ut In
the darkness. but seldom hit. For fire.
arms, fire or torches they cared moth
ing. One of them leaped upon an OFF,
Ger, tore his knapsack from his back
and then carried away and devoured
a soldier near him.
Many became so terror-stricken that
they threw themselves on the rails In
front of eastward train and insisted
on either being run over or carried OF
on the train. Those who stayed for
sock the tents and huts and camped
out on top Of the water tanks, on roofs
and bridge Orders or In beds dashed to
the highest branches of the trees. One
night one of these broke, letting It's
dodgers fall within a few feet of the
lions. But, being already too occupied
with dnvouring a victim. the brutes
gave no heed to this "windfall." but LET
the intruders escape until another
meal.
Killed Nearly One Hundred Men.
During the eight months that these
lions lived upon these railroad men
they would be occasionally wounded by
a shot and obliged to retire from active
life, thus giving the camp intervals OF
quiet. But they killed and ate In all
nearly thirty natives of India, twice as
many African natives, besides injuring
many others of various nationalities.
1t was impossible to poison them be.
cause they confined their diet entirely
to human beings, to the neglect Of every
kind of game, with which the region
abounds. The white men were not
numerous enough to hunt them sue
cessfully and the Sepoys were too un
skilled with firearms. At length an en-
gineer of the line who spent months OF
his time pursuing them, worn out by
loss Of sleep, sitting up in the moon
light and tracking them during the day
succeeded in shooting them both and
putting an end to these man-eaters
reign of terror. They were each ovel
nine feet long.
Both Africa and India are in many
parts under the dominion of the lioI
and tiger. Against the lion Of South
Africa the native has to be constantly
on his guard. The Arabs arrange theil
tents in a circle in the center of which
the herds are penned, and outside the
tents is a rude hedge. When they heaI
the animal begin roaring, and he can bs
heard plainly at distance Of three
miles, sometimes family nine miles Off
they kindle the heaps of wood thai
have been piled up before each tent 81
that the occupant may hurl a lighted
brand at him. But some Of the brute.
have become so wonted to the fire, tn,
yelping of the dogs and the cries Of tn,
people that they pay no attention t.
them. He boldly leaps within the In
closure. He drives men, women an(
children into their tents, silences thu
dogs and stampedes horses, sheep ant
dogs through the hedge and across tn,
desert.
From the sheep too, frightened Il
fee, he selects his supper and carries 1
away to the mountains. Or IL tn,
moods suit pursues the horses ant
cattle. or these he will sometimes kill
three or four and suck their blood
leaving their carcasses where he over
took them. The power Of these blacl
African lions is enormous. The strong
est of them can clear an eight-foot In
closure holding in their mouths n
year-old horse. Girard, the lion-killer
declares that he has seen one OF then
charge into the midst Of 300 Arab horse
men on an open plain and drive then
back to their eneampment, the bodies
of them with their horses remaining
PROSTATE along his path.
In India man-eating tiger kill
more than a hundred people year
sometimes four or nve and even sever
persons mt once. In some districts 30'
or 400 human beings are annually slail
by tigerc and In lower Bengal as man.
as 700 are killed. One tigress has beef
known to close the public roads. caus
the dcsertion OF thirteen villages ant
put over 25o square miles Of territor'