Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-07-27 | Page 10 | Ask Protection from Cruelty

ASii PuOTECTION FuOIl CRUELTY ., , . , . Lumber .Camp Employees Peach Pensacola, Tern and Bleeding, and Tell Stories of Abuse. PENSACOLA. Fla., July 27. With big weits and bruises all over their arms and bodies, and with their clothing; torn by the fierce attack of bloodhounds, which had trailed and caught them, three more men arrived here today from the camp of the Jackson Lumber company camps at Lockhart, Ala., and asked for protection. The men are John Cook and Harry Lyman, Ly-man, Americana, and Vendll Kelvershult, a German. "We tried to escape last Saturday night." said the men. "but the put bloodhounds on us and we were trailed down. Cook was' so weak and exhausted he could scarcely walk." Lyman asld: "We were given forty lashes each and taken back. The blood-', hounds would bare torn me to pieces, but I saved myself by a hard fight. Our second attempt to escape was more successful suc-cessful and we came- to Pensacola to report re-port th matter." -