Salt Lake Times | 1890-10-14 | Page 3 | Bees Sting a Team to Death

Bees Sting a Team to Death. While William Harris and his son James were at the McKim farm, Steuben-ville, Steuben-ville, on the West Virginia side of the river, two horses, hitched at the side of the barn, slipped their bridles and started start-ed to run away. Harris, seeing the runaway, run-away, tried to head the horses, causing them to turn and go through a fence into in-to a yard where there were thirty beehives. bee-hives. Three hives were knocked over by the horses. Thousands of bees swarmed over the horses, which lay down in the harness moaning piteously. As young Harris could not see the horses suffer he cut the traces with a butcher knife, while the bees attacked him. He started the horses off. When loose from the cattle crate the horses ran in all directions in the fields, uttering unnatural squeals, at times rolling in tho grass, moaning terribly. ter-ribly. , , One horse lay down in a creek, where it rolled and shrieked till death ended its sufferings. The other horse was caught and hay burned under it, but the horse died in a short time. Both were fine animals. Young Harris was stung badly, but he was bathed in a tub of soda water, counteracting the poison. Cincinnati Enquirer. ,