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Show ms oifpt Tit An Inebriate! Banchman Meets a Horrible Hor-rible Death at the Horns of a Vioioui Bull. AN INQUEST AT MIDNIGHT. Tbo Coroner Hastens to the Scene and Returns at an Early Hour This Horning. Upon a slab in the morgue is stretched the bloody, mutilated body of John Koiuhart who was gored 10 death about dusk last evening ou a ranch ou Mill creek. Jt was 1) o'clock last evening when a telephone message was received at police po-lice headquarters announcing the tragedy. trag-edy. Tho message was promptly transmitted to Coroner Harris' ollice and au iutervieiv was opened through the wires. Tho persons at the other eud were undecided as to whether Rein-hart Rein-hart was dead or not, but the coroner determined to take clntncos and ordering order-ing Kvautt & Ross to trot out the morgue wagou secured the services of Dr. Kwiug and started for the scone, about 10 o'clock the ominous nut lit begun to move through the dullness and at midnight were at I ho ranch wbero the bloody affair occurred. The skill of a surgeon was not necessary neces-sary to determiue whether Ritieliart wits dead or not. Ho had departed this li to hours betore, and left a hideous .spectacle behiud. Jt was rcvoltiug. The head was literally a ball of blood und brains that oozed from an orilice that had bueu inflicted by the iufiiri-11 iufiiri-11 led beast. Au iuquesl was held that soon brought out the bloodcurdling blood-curdling particulars. I'nder tho iulluence ot liquor, Roinhart had entered en-tered the corral to stable the bull for the night. In his drunken recklessness, he began to goad tho hurley fellow, when it wheeled and, with a desperate plunge, buried a horu in Rein-liart Rein-liart s eye. I' liable to extricate it, the bull tore about the corral with Reinhart'a body tossing through the air. The ranch hauds, attracted Ijy the shrieks of tho doomed man hastened to his rescue. Altera tierce baitie in which the pitchfork was resorted to the body of Rinehart was released from its awful impalement and removed to the stable where he perished a few minutes later. These facts having been developed devel-oped and the cause of death made apparent ap-parent the bloody cargo was loaded in the dead wagou aud brought to the city. |