Show BLACK SNAKES SHAKES REMLY KILL FARMER Tm vering ng salesman comes to AW aid of victim in the nick of abne ruie wniema welita T merrill a young tanner farmer hertog la in tho ae anti eight miles fast of st ataro settlement alent Se near samer field somerset bounly while driving to vanderbilt this comfy the other atter afternoon noon encountered two monster black baskes which attached him nod mid bad nearly bebr crushed his life out when joseph cook a traveling im of pittsburgh drove up the road imd 4 with merrills knife cut the large snake baraho in two and beat tho the second off with tho butt end ot of a heavy whip and killed it ft with a club the L larger adgor snake measured seven test tour four inches and the other was a fow n f I 1 I 1 tv two serpents colled coiled about hawl him y X inches shorter merrin was vw iq his home and a at attended tendall hini him when mr cools cook drove up he noticed merrill writhing with the me two oer ber dents pants colled coiled firmly about him so BO that ho he had no use of his hand and arms annar and helas he was fighting the snakes oi on a 4 26 foot precipice along tho the roads lda near the haggerty farm merrill told cook to take a knife kalte from his pocket docket as he clutched tho the larger snake by the nerk neck cook drawing draw ins a largo bunt ing knife from merrills pocket cut the larger snake in tw r this freed merrills haws and bo be i took tho the knife and cut at the other B snake nake while cook beat it with a club until it tell fell from merrills legs mer rin rill in a weakened condition took the carcasses of both snakes to his home ha and intends having them and w prepared by a taxidermist merrul merrill told later that the eastes attacked his cows as a he was waa etring rt ring across tha me mountain tn road and tn in bla endeavor deavor on to drive thom aff they had overpowered him and bound his arms so eo that he be could not reach his hunting knife tte tn 0 astory was related to news paper by jasper augustine a wealthy and prominent citizen ot of uniontown Union town who had met the tha men on his return fa bm m his country place pace near somerset |