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THRILLING VOYAGE
ACROSS ATLANTIC
Cargo of Wild Animals Gives
Touch of Strenuous
Life.
LIONS LOOSE ON DECK
British Freishter st. Andrew Lands 10
New York With Largest Collection
of Beasts and Reptiles Since
Days of Noah.
From the New York Herald.

SeJS ON
From the New York Herald.
One Of the liveliest voyages that was
ever made across the Atlantic was
brought to a conclusion when the
British %freighter ST. Andrew came into,
the port of New York with the big
gest menagerie that has ever gone
afioat since the days of Noah.
1t found a gale when it was in mid
Atlantic-a furious outhy which sent
it plunging and rolling as though 1t
would pitch itself into judgment day."
and what, with cages gong adrift and
alambanging to and fro, with seas
bursting over the decks and pouring
dow the open ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
which could not be closed, as the ami
the vessel been battened down-the
crew had a lively time. Added to this
was the tumult of roars which came
from the terrified animals and a stili
greater tumult ensued when in the
blackness Of a stormy midnight sew
when some assaulted each other. oth-
ers attacked their keepers with the
result that many Of the latter now
show severe decorations. An elephant,
attacked by a puma, which had brok-
en- from its cage, curled it's trunk O
the savag little beast, slammed it on
deck and then trampled it to death. A
wolf escaped and jumped overheard
and a hyena which assailed a polar
oear has now much less fur but much
more wisdom.
The menagerie vas consigned to
Bostock and is intended for show pur-
poses at Coney island. The st. An
drew reached quarantine in the fore
noon, n after a short delay it moved
up to it's pier at h foot of Seventh
street, Hoboken, where the animals
were landed. AS soon as the lines had
been made fast Matt" Johnson, who
Is in charge Of the shipment, fastened
ashore and made a round Of the butch
account Of the protracted oyage due
to the weather which the vessel had!
encountered the fresh mea supply had,
become exhausted, and such of the an
imals as SubSist on a meat diet had
been fasting, and as a result were in,
about as savage a mood as animals can.
well be.
Beginning of the Trouble.
Putting out from Hamburg on Aprin
%, the st. Andrew had fair weather
until May 2. Then it encountered
fierce westerly gale, which was to last
seventy hours before it blew itself out.
it was during this stress that there
was SO much trouble below. 1t was
initiated by two lion which had been
Gagged in the same pen, and known as
Victor n Madam. The roar from
the cag brought keepers hurrying TIC.
it with lanterns, n these found that
the lion had pinned the .-oness by the
throat n despite every effort of tho.
keepers to separate them the lion
maintained his savage attack.
While vigorously prodding the lion
a heavy roll of the ship sent one of
the keepers against an adjoining cage.
A young lion which it contained made
q vicious stroke with his paw. ripping
away the trousers Of the keeper and
badly lacerated the flesh.
About the same time another keeper
| was thrown against another line cage
and the beast reached out it's paw,
pinned the keeper by the shoulder and.
would have torn away the flesh had
not another keeper broken the clutch.
with an iron bar.
which there were eighty in all on.
board, had started a chorus of trum-
peting, growls and cries from the other
imprisoned beasts. One of the twenty.
cage and attacked an elephant with,
the result that has been told. A Rus
sian wolf got free from it's cage and
dashed up the open hatchway, over
turning two keepers, who were trying
to descend. These picked themselves
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the decks raced fugitives and pursuers
until finally the wolf leaped over the
side.
Hyenas Frantic.
Further aft, where the forty-hyo
bears Of the consignment were quar-
tered, came the noise of another row.
One hyena, for which no space could!
be found below, had been put there in.
it's cage. 1t had gnawed and fretted at.
it's bars until the fastenings gave way,
and the first use the repulsive animal
made of it's freedom was to SNAP at
the heels of a Polar bear. The bear.
reached out it's paw and with n
stroke stripped nearly half of the hide.
from it's adversary.
In number and variety this consign-
ment is by far the biggest ever placed
on shipboard. Included among tho
eighty lions Of the menagerie is Men
elk, an A~byssinian lion, said to be tho
biggest of its kind in captivity, and
Wallace, famed for his untamed ma
ture. Caesar, the biggest tiger in cap
tivity, is also on board, and with his
sinister renown all on board are glad
that he was maintained in captivity
during the time when so many other
were breaking their way to freedom.
There are twenty-five pumas, droves
of bulls, dromedaries n camels, two
laughing hyenas and ten that are
destitute Of mirth, five chimpanzees.
our cages of monkeys, Russian
wolves, leopards, kangaroos. deer.
llamas and all manner Of feathered