The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-20
BULLOCKS
RAGE.
Wild Cattle Attack
Seanen Of the
Donau.
NOVEL FIGHT
ABOARD SHIP
Beef on the Hoof Shiver the
Timbers of a Man.
of.War.

Inc Austrian cruiser Donau naQ Il
unique experience for a maa-oI-war
the other day, in that her decks were
held by a herd of believing and fight
ing wild cattle that the crew had to
shoot in self defense.
The Donau is one of the fash
storage plant She has, therefore, to
ship her beef on the hoof. She expects
to sail for Nagasaki today, and there
are over three hundred men aboard
who must be fed, and who can't get
along. without fresh meat. Therefore,
as the supply of beef had run short
on the Donau, it was decided to take
aboard about thirty head of cattle.
These were ordered, and Monday they
were put aboard the training ship.
Unluckily, they We're not cows, but
wild bullocks from the Island of Ha-
wall. They had never seen a man-of-
war deck before, and when they got
aboard of the Donau and perceived the
array of weapons and red thing or
them to show fight. And they did.
Before they could be gotten below into
their stalls they took possession of the
ship.
One powerful brute lowered his head,
shook his horns, beloved a few times.
calling to his mates, and then mace
rush for the nearest officer. The
officer made quick time up the main
rigging. He found that this was a
good position from which to direct the
pitched battle which followed, and so
stayed there that he might see all that
went on.
young officer on his prongs, the angry
bull made rush for a petty officer,
standing near the gangway. The petty
officer had read of real bull fights, and
Immediately did Lively stunt along
the rail on his way to tell the officer
in the rigging something that he had
just thought of.
Meanwhi fury seemed to have se'z-
ed the whole herd. and they not only
made attempts to toss all the men N
sight, but they commenced to fight
among themselves.
Confusion prevailed for fifteen or
twenty minutes, and the decks ran
blood as the result of the Infatuated
beasts puncturing each other with
their horns.
One bullock of an ambitious turn of
mind, made for the captains cabin and
succeeded in getting himself damned
in the doorway. Another bull noticed
this and amused himself by tearing big
pieces of stew meat out OF the en-
trapped animals hind quarters.
Another beast fell through a skylight
and landed below with fragments of
stained glass windows sticking in his
ribs.
Gun-racks were knocked from their
fastenings, buckets and ropes and
of oil M o1Qd
with the raging bullocks, and the
frightened and fighting animals went
tearing and believing around, bangirs
into everything, smashing glass,
scratching the deck, bruising them
selves on the gun-butts, and chasing
any unfortunate marine who CHANGED
to be in sight.
The cook thought that typhoon had
struck the harbor, and that the shin, S
masts were going by the board. He
rushed out of the galley with his val
uables in one hand and bottle or
yeast in the other. When he realized
what was going on he threw his bottle
of yeast in the middle Of the herd OF
mad cattle, where it exploded between
the eyes of one of the mob, and then
beat a hasty retreat back to his pots
and pans. knowing that he had no
right to interfere with anything on
deck
trying to force their way aft, while
others were fighting among them
selves, some lying in the agonies OF
death on the deck.
Venturesome members of the crew
We're trying to pacify the beasts. One
marine, who had been brought up on
a farm, crawled along the rail, patted
a big bull on the rump and said. so
hos, so bos,'' or words to that effect,
in his language. This didn't work
Things were getting desperate, ana II
became necessary to adopt heroic
measures to stop the fighting among
the cattle. Revolvers were drawn
and used until many more bullocks lay
dead upon the decks, and the others
were secured.
When the decks were finally cleared
and the blood was hosed away 1t was
found that several hundred dollars
worth of damage had been done py
the bullocks. Luckily, however, no
person was injured.
This is the first time that a man-of-
war has been captured by a hero OF
cattle since the stock TRANSPORT ARK
Captain Noah, carried a live cargo
several years ago.
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