Show LION LOOSE to fo an express CT car and devoured Deron red is f cargo or of rou try itry cumberland md special to now new york journal terrifying growls Is sued from an express car of a train that passed through here the other day bound tor for philadelphia A lion was in possession freed from his cage slaughtering chickens by wholesale conductor and brakemen kept as far away is their duties would permit half a dozen men were gathered ga in the caboose gloomily wondering what they could do fo 0 o restore the monster to confinement when the train stopped here tor for water they were at their wits erd end many ot of the inhabitants flocked to the station to listen at it a site safe distance to the pandemonium that raged in the express car there was a continuous fluttering and scream screaming inc the hysterical distress of FL a barnyard punctuated by rino one crash itter after another as the big brute destroyed the poultry crates around him amid vibrant boais that se sent nt the crowd staggering backward back waid no one dared to enter tile the car the animal trainers in the caboose were only too thankful to his bb divided from their charge by stout wooden walls accustomed as they were to subdue wild beasts they realized that this lion which had glutted himself on living prey would rend any man who approached him through a grating in the side ride of the car they could see him from time to time his muzzle stained with blood and bristling with feathers all about him lay the mutilated bodies of birds he had bad seized without devouring them the survivors sui livors flew hither and thith thither er frantically ti sometimes hitting the root roof and dropping back again to the floor none nona of those responsible for the lions ite site s keeping could imagine how bow he had broken from his cage but it was easy to conceive he had been maddened by the heat beat and darkness and jolting ol of railway traveling aggravated as it must have been by the sound and smell of life in the crates all about him it was agreed that the only thing to do was to continue the journey to philadelphia delp hla with all possible speed and there take steps at leisure to either eithe r capture or kill the bloodthirsty animal and so the train rumbled on with uie tie lion in possession |