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Show PIGS CAUSED HAVOC manvllle ran away and the excitement CMaaed only when twelve of the pigs had been killed and the others driven pell niell lu all directions. Twenty-Five Young Porkers Liberated Lib-erated by Mischievous Boys. Onr Saloon Is Wrecked, Three Per-sons Per-sons Suffer Sprained Legs, Delivery Deliv-ery Wagon Is Upset and Much Other Damage Done. Chicago. Twenty-five young pigs liberated from crates by mischievous boys caused havoc In Clybourn avenue the other day. Patrol wagons filled with policemen In command of Lieut. Max Heldlemeler of the Hudson avenue ave-nue station charged the "enemy." Uul lets flew thick and fast, and when the excitement had subsided the following bad happened: One saloon wrecked. . v -1 Three persons suffered sprained legs. A newspaper automobile delivery wagon partially wrecked. Twelve pigs klled. Several plate glass windows wrecked. wreck-ed. Many women and children In hysterics. hyster-ics. Numerous pedestrians suffered from bruises caused by the pigs upsetting them. One wagon demolished when horse ran away. Numerous other events marked the day, and when It was all over Lieut. Heldlemeler said be had not put In such an exciting day In all his career as a policeman. It all happened when a number of mischievous boys saw two crates of young pigs being delivered to Charles Meuthcn, H57 Clybourn avenue, and Intended for an annual holiday, one of the chief annual events enjoyed by "Hurgomelstcr" Heldlemeier's "subjects." "sub-jects." The two crates were set directly Inside In-side the rear door of Meuthcn's place. The youngsters had no difficulty In entering unobMerved. Several pieces of wood were removed from both crates. The next minute there was excitement galore There were pigs on the floor, pigs back of the bar. pigs under the tallica and pig everywhere. every-where. The air seemed full of sijuealing, terrllled "porkers." Ilrave sons of the fatherland, members mem-bers of the famous "Clybourn Avenue Guards," who served with brilliant honors In the lloer war, promptly surrendered sur-rendered w hen the squealing porkers pork-ers attacked them. Tho brave warriors war-riors went down together. Herr John Spless, general In command of the Clybourn Cly-bourn Avenue Guards, promptly grabbed grab-bed bis trusty lloer gun and proceeded to clean out the enemy. The other members did the same. In a minute the place was filled with leadon balls, which raced with the pigs In breaking the glassware. Somebody sent In a riot call to the Hudson avenue station. Lieut. Heldlemeler, Hel-dlemeler, at the head of twenty Are policemen, responded. In the meantime, mean-time, Ike Meyer threw open the doors. The battle was then transferred to the street. A car was passing Several Sev-eral pigs took a notion to leap aboard. Panic Immediately followed among the women. Charles Menthen, with his trusty lloer gun, went In pursuit One of the enemy tripped him and he fell, spraining bis inkle. Richard Harder, 14G4 Clybourn avenue, ave-nue, emptied a repeating rifle from his bedroom window and missed everything ev-erything but a number of plateglass windows on the opposite side of the street Ills ammunition gone. Harder leaped from a second story window, landing on the barks of two pigs. He surrendered with a sprained ankle. A newspaper automobile came In contact with the leader of the porkers, skidded skid-ded and crashed Into a bay and feed wagon. The gasoline tank exploded, the wagon was partially wrecked, a horse belonging to Alfred Schaart of How- |
