Show BOY FIGHTS WITH At ESCAPED BEAR GETS BAD WOUNDS BEFORE SUCCEEDING SUC-CEEDING IN CHAINING HIM UP ONCE MORE SMALL BAR ONLY WEAPON Adventure Occurs at Amusement Garden Gar-den and Causes Panic Among Women and ChildrenYouth Taken to Hospital St Louis Panic i prevailed among women and children at a Dclmar garden gar-den show when a badtempered black bear which had broken his chain climbed out of bio pit Clarenco Voa well aged 17 who is employed at the garden ao a mechanic not as an animal ani-mal handler leaped forward grasped the short chain dragged the powerful power-ful animal which bit and clawed him back into the pit fastened the brute securely and then fainting with pain was carried to the City hospital where ftu H he will be confined for some time A small iron bar was tho only weapon weap-on Voswell had against tho bears formidable for-midable claws and sharp teoth Hta effective hammering of the boars head probably was all that saved him being torn to pieces by tho angry animal Cossack is not a trained bear said Voswell Ho Is just an exhibit in a concession on the Dolmar Pike and Is admired for his size and his glossy black coatI coat-I have never had any experience handling animals but it has been part of my work to feed this bear and I came to know his ways and that he was a dangerous fellow 1 While a crowd waif standing around his pit Cossack jerked his chain loose from the ring and started to climb jut I heard womensiece m and riw everybody breaklnl t 1t ay Jrbm the place and I ran over tiers There was old Cossack right up on the ground His f pit was only about five N hieGdaep kYid waeno trouble tier + him to get out I shouted to Cossack to go back In tho pit He has never learned to rll J 9 Q L t F 5 He Struck Me with His Open Paw obey and Instead of doing as I told him he made for me I picked up a short iron bar the only thing that was handy I had no gun and if I had I would havo hesitated hesi-tated to use it I stepped to one side of Cossack and grabbed his chain and as ho lunged for me I thumped him on the head c That made him furious but It made it easier for me to Jerk him back into the lilt He jumped in and I 1 grabbed tho chain which ho had pulled out of my hands r Down there In the pit ho had the advantage of me There was where tr we had our real fight He struck mo I J with his open paw tore my coat and tJir under clothes open and dug Into my shoulder I hit him on the head again t and be iliad at me with his teeth and bit mo in the right leg I thought ho had bitten It pit ho went so If l deep t I thumped him on the head with all iny might and ho let go Then I snapped his chain back on the ring w fastened it securely and just as hu y made at me again with his claws I jumped out of tho pit The bear fight occurred at a thnn when the Delmar Pike was well filled and various reports which followed It caused excitement among tho sldu show crowds and on the grounds adjacent |