The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-07-19

was apparently a question of only
a few minutes until they would go.
Suddenly from the crowd a fellow
wearing a buckaroo hat and holding
aloft an axe pushed into the fence.
With every stroke a strand of wire
was severed and in what seemed to
be only a second a floor poured
through.
A score of tragedies and comedies
we're enacted in the short few min
utes it took to cover the ground be-
tween the fence and the long grad
tents to the edge of the arena. One
or two will suffice.
A woman in khaki, one of the hun
dreds of b~e-trousered damsels to be
seen in Shelby that morning, found
herself swept along with the flood
and whether by injury or fright she
fell fainting almost in the path Of
the main part of the crowd. AS steers
divide in a stampede, at the sight of
a trampled victim, the running mob
split around her. Suddenly two men,
moved coincidentally by a mans in
stinct, stopped and picked her up.
One held her feet and the other
grasped her around the shoulders,
then on they tore up the slope of the
entrance marked &c" and, within 10
feet of me, laid her tenderly on a
bench and then beat it for the ring
side. I called to a peanut boy who
had a bucket of ice filled with liquid
refreshments of some kind. Before
I could stop him he had dashed the
icy water in her face. 1t was an eff
fective, albeit heroic remedy. In a
second she was sitting up and as she
arranged her ~disheve1ed hair and
glanced down across the bowl she
~murmured, Gee, I'm going to see the
fight after ALL"
But to the crowd. AS they tore
through the fence scores were caught
on the barb wire. Torn coats and
torn trousers, what did it matter!
They dashed on. One man lost so
much of his neither apparel that in
stead of following the line to the
chutes, he kept straight on under the
arena and was lost in the forest of
timbers.
On a butte about a quarter of a
mile away there were parked hun
dreds of automobiles and around
them perhaps a thousand people.
Some of them had been there for "a
hours, jealousy guarding their want
age point from which they could get
a general view of the arena. AS soon
as they saw the others tearing
through the gates they came dashing
pell nell down the slopes of the
I car always say now that I have
seen a gallant rush of infantry in
battle. Nothing else could it be COM
pared with, for it seemed as If it took
but a minute to cover the intervening
Men, women and children, in
tent upon gaining what they had
scarcely expected, followed on the
heels of the bowling mob.
Before the gates crashed" the
had been admitting hun
1reds at cut-rate prices. Apparently
his was part of a preconceived plan,
it was Jack Kearns himself who
superintendent the sale, and it was
1ne of his men who produced eight
or ten suitcases into which the silver
and bills, tens, fiyes and even ones,
we're thrown. At first tickets were
given in exchange but towards the
the deputies at the gate snatched
he money, threw it in the suitcases, ]
which as fast as they were filled were
,lung into a waiting automobile and
hen, evidently considering anything
Else that might be taken in as velvet, s
he entries were accepted. All of this,
had occurred before the time {
arrived, was apparently one of the
contributing circumstances to the
Ultimate result. IL