Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 10 | Mother Gives Life to Save Her Child

! ' ! MOTHER GIVES LIFE ' k TO SAVE HER CHILD Woman Is Trampled to Death by Vicious Buck Sheep. ! ',. ' Hptiial lo Tho Trfbunp. I " fJHfiVENNfc; Wyo., Sov. 'J. A battle . to tho fk In which a frail' little ' ivnnifin y;t'c her lift; to ssivo that of hor 1 fhik, was fought Saturday, at a farm ' j forty-flvfi miles cast of Cheyenne, by -1 in. Martha. Kin near, ;i0, and a vicious i l)tirk shftfn. Tho shtpp killer! the woman, Inn not until nhe had fit rimsled suffioi-. suffioi-. 1 f'ntly lon' lo enable her three and one- ' half yf'fir old son, who first was attacked, to renfh n;i rVl y In 1 lie farm house. No i r other person was at the farm ar the time, iind the riiIM of the nheep for the death , of the woman and the severe injuring of i , the child wa:i est a hlinhnd only by blood v found on the aniniHl'h head and hoofs. Mrs. Ji linear was the wife of S. R. i i. Kinnear. a tenant farmer, who rents a : l " plH-e tun miles Bouth of the town of Pine ' f- Hhiffs. A few rtiiys ao Kinnear ac- j' !' quii-erf a buck sheep of an unruly disposi-I disposi-I f1" tion, but he did not dream that the ani- 1 - r ninl was sufficiently vicious to be a , , t menace to Ids family. ' c Saturday morning at. S o'clock Kinnear t- mid his 12-voar-old son went to a neigh-; neigh-; bor's to do some work, leaving Mrs. Kin-r Kin-r near and tho baby at the farm. When . ' - they returned at 4 o'clock they found tine "baby, badly injured and bHnd because his ' r fyiH were hwoIIimi shut. In the house, 1 , t with no sipn of the mother about. Kin-" Kin-" near and the older boy searched the vl-: vl-: chitly of the dwelling, but did not find , ,, "Mrs. Kinnear. Mystified, and alarmed rewarding the injuries of the baby, Kin-i Kin-i - near dispatched the older son to a neighbor's neigh-bor's to summon help, while he ministered minis-tered lo the hurt child. Ah ho worked over the suffering baby , i and observed the character of Its hurts, , all bruises and cuts inflicted by some bluett In.strument, Kinnear suddenly recollected rec-ollected (he vicious sheep a nd experienced experi-enced a premonition of the situation of 1 itffairs. Running from the house, he extended ex-tended the area of the search which he , and his sun had made and, behind a 1 straw slack found the battered corpse I of his wife, surrounded by evidences of a - 1 struairle. Not far away "was the buck. his horns, bead and hoofs spattered with blood. Mrs, Kinnears skull had been '! fractured and her face and body disfigured dis-figured by the hoofs of the sheep. Fresh dough in- a pan in the kitchen , and on the hands of the dead woman provided a cluo to the probable manner -i of the tragedy. It is assumed that the ; I baby was playing near the house while the mother was mlNing dough and that tbe child was attacked by the sheep, its ; sci ea ma ntt racting the attention of the mother. jlrs. Kinnear probably went to ' Hie rescue and fought the sheep while i,! she cried to the baby to run Into the house. The youngster was badly hurt, I but presumably obeyed, the mother in r tlie meanwhile being knocked down and r.- ram pled. Hhe was - small and frail, II "-weighing but little more than 100 pounds, and was no match for the heavy sheep. Coroner Clyde En rly was summoned ,1'roni Cheyenne and decided that the II . 'foregoing probably was the manner of ' the tragedy and held that an Inquest was I not necessary. Mrs. Winnear's funeral ( t'. w ill be held next Wednesday. , (". While the baby is in serious condition, . .! 'Jus recovery is expected. The sheep has i not been killed.