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was apparently question of only
a few minutes until they would go.
Suddenly from the crowd a fellow
wearing 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 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 stampede, at the sight of
a trampled victim, the running mob
split around her. Suddenly two men,
moved coincidentally by 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. l called to peanut boy who
had 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 disheveled 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
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
,hutes, he kept straight on under the
arena and was lost in the forest of
imbers.
On butte about quarter of a
nile away there were parked hun :
lreds of automobiles and around 4
hem perhaps thousand people. II
some of them had been there for "a t
hours, jealousy guarding their want 3
lge point from which they could get s
general view of the arena. AS soon s
IS they saw the others tearing
through the gates they came dashing !,
'ell nell down the slopes of the I
lutte.
/ can always say now that I have =
cen gallant rush of infantry in :
attic. Nothing else could it be COM T
AIRED with, for it seemed as If it took :
ut minute to cover the intervening :,
rea. Men, women and children, in :,
emit upon gaining what they had :,
carcely expected, followed on the :
cells of the bowling mob.
Before the gates crashed" the N
romoters had been admitting hum d
reds at cut-rate prices. Apparently Z
his was part of preconceived plan, :
or it was Jack Kearns himself who u
lperintended the sale, and it was
ne of his men who produced eight tC
r ten suitcases intoawhich the silver tt
nd bills, tens, fives and even ones, k
ere thrown. At first tickets we're b
wen in exchange but towards the Ell
nd the deputies at the gate snatched p'
lie money, threw it in the suitcases, ri
hich as fast as they were filled were Sc
ung into waiting automobile and ca
len, evidently considering anything tn
Sc that might be taken in as velvet, st
e entries were accepted. All of this,
hich had occurred before the time OF
arrived, was apparently one of the ra
circumstances to the bl
innate result. m