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Show A lliill.LIMt IM'lllll'Mi:. MaJiiii Tuei Hifi HKig, in nn Interview Inter-view with rt HI. Loul GUli Ihmmnl rejorter, relate! a thrilling experience ho had ou Ihe tain lu lso'i. Alter noting a (arlyot emigrants he waa reluming home b Ml.sourl. He cirtqeilonaiilglit ou a small trjlntiry of Ihu Mid lie I, -jo p. Hhortly aflergo- lug to tleep he was avvakeuoj by the ncljhlng of hi horse, and saw that the prairie south of him was afire, arid a ntioug wind veuplag II In his direction. direc-tion. He mounted bis horse and Halted Halt-ed for the north, but alter traversing a couple of mile Ihe horse put It h-x.l In a hole and fell a-id broke It leg. What followed tho Majorgrapblc-illyploturt lu these words: M he tiro hommut! inn in by n semi ilrelunndwas nomine; on with ttrrlblo rapldit). Tho whole heae mis seemed to Via sheet of roaring Heme. I II ought sun Iwaailonn for. I bate leard Ilia, men brought fnot-i f-o-o with i.eath ro meniuer ory evil donl of Iholr llvot but I slrnph aloal thero In tho dry grass and watched tha liihllnie spetUole. I felt that in doom was eeated and deliberately delib-erately walled for It. Nudleuly a new danger eourrotileil me. A eatt herd of hulTalo Hying bsfore Hi II ro was bearing down iim me. I waa lo n tramples! lo death and ereuiato-1 afterwards! As the vast masieame lliiinditliig on I lostlne-lltelyairto-Uiidrtu. Heieral rweut neurrying by me, and I fiucled 1 could fil tie hot brealh uf the herd of hurrato on Iho buck of my ni-ek. ! was suddenly throw- Into tho air an 1 landed length-wise length-wise aerm thebtek of a big bull. "I fesUnod uy lingers In his sbagy coat and managed to bcatrldo hlni, and thu mounted I waa carried hi iho Ijiup lllvk- k,.. I U. .1 ... Itlver, wbire I was thrown tn by iho braneh of a Iren. I iratiagcd t, wing toll, hoissvor, an I thus aeed ln-slf ln-slf from being trampled lo dealu. 'tho herd plunged aoroas tho shallow rltnr an 1 1 look rifngo from the approaching II line lu Us muddy walera. 1 lin ds) later I was irked up, mom ihrad (Iinii alive, by an en Igraul train. I snt, nrt and last, nniro ihjii Adct u )esrs on tho Plains, and hal many closo calls, but that midnight rulo on a bulbilo' luck, Willi Iho 1iiip litter In front ami iho (HrM of leheuns roarlug in lliorvar was, ItMnk.arcinirk.ilIeasanyof iho lu-seutlonaoi lu-seutlonaoi iho yillow-luck llloratl." |
