The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 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
were 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 be-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 tramp1ed 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
f~ective, albeit heroic remedy. In a
she was sitting up and as she
arranged her d~isheveled 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 mar lost so
much of his neither apparel that in
stead of following the line to the
he kept straight on under the
and was lost in the forest of
On a butte about a quarter of a
nile away there were parked hun :
of automobiles and around t
hem perhaps a thousand people. t
of them had been there for "a t
tours, jealousy guarding their want a
ge point from which they could get s
general view of the arena. AS soon S
8 they saw the others tearing
trough the gates they came dashing h
ell nell down the slopes of the '
ute. :
l can always say now that I have .
a gallant rush of infantry in =
attic. Nothing else could it be COM 2
AIRED with, for 1t seemed as II it took 4
ut a minute to cover the intervening y
rea. Men, women and children, in y
ant upon gaining what they had !,
,arcely expected, followed on the
eels of the bowling mob. :,
Before the gates Crashed" the ~
had been admitting hum a.
at cut-rate prices. Apparently -
lis was part of a preconceived plan, s
n 1t was Jack Kearns himself who -
lperintended the sale, and it was
of his men who produced eight to
ten suitcases into which the silver tn
bills, tens, fives and even ones, k1
ere thrown. At first tickets were be
ven in exchange but towards the ct
ID the deputies at the gate snatched pc
9 money, threw it in the suitcases, ri
hich as fast as they were filled were SO
ing into a waiting automobile and ca
en-, evidently considering anything tn
that might be taken in as velvet, ST
e entries were accepted. All of this, /.
1ich had occurred before the time OF
arrived, vas apparently one of the "a
circumstances to the Du
innate result. M