| Show WO BEES MR WN THEIR HOMES UPSET BY RUN AWAY TEAM INSECTS STING ANIMALS TO DEATH DRIVER SERIOUSLY INJURED farmer M may y pay with hla his life for at tempt to rescue tortured beatta beasts victim nearly insane with pain fresno cal stung to death by aes h eg that thai may b br the fate ot of robert stafford a teamster employed on the I 1 C blane ranch near kerman thrown v n fi aiom am a wagon upset by a run away team ot of tour four horses the driver was at the mercy of the infuriated in sects beets three af jf hla his boises are alrea already d Y dead train from the effects of the stings and the remaining horse will III die stafford would have escaped practically un harmed had he not stayed to free his team aiom the harness this may cost his life this unusual occurrence took place while stafford was driving home with a loaded wagon of hay bay no fir from th the 0 ranch house there la Is ft a small field used as an apiary by illane some 30 oi 1 40 beehives beEhive ii arf scat tied about inside the inclosure As the team drew near the fence something frightened them arid and the horses breaking from the driver a con arol turned sharply across the road the hub but of one of the i wheels heels caught caugh t the fence and tore down the entire side ahe shock turned the team into the field and tho the horses panic strick e en n by this time little raed the ground knocking the fhe hives right and left some 30 were strewn about the field before the dilver realized what had happened long before the entire number was down the occupants of the hives first overthrown were buzzing angrily about the head bead of at the driver stafford fought desperately with them but the 11 tinge stings increased and yelling the man ran from the field followed by the insects me ile had bad beaten most of his bis pursuers w when hen he beard the frantic scream of a horse borse in agony then lie be remembered bin hl team and braving the bees start ed balk back while battling to save hla his horses stafford fought the bees with hat bat and IV A 1 ix he could stand it no longer and fled hands managing to steep many of at them away from him bin As he stooped to unfasten the harness of one of at the horses that lad bad fallen dov don it however the too foe took advantage of his posture and of in III a second fastened upon his 1 an face arms anna and person in uch fuch num br bers that be looked like a cluster of bees in aw arming time after a few moments of at this agony lie he could stand it no longer and fled once outside of the field where they had bad made their homo home most of the bees left him and returned to the ani mals still entangled in their harness A few still stuck tp t him buzzing an arlly about his ears earn this the man mail says he be did not notile in fa act c t stafford 91 aaa he can cant t le member n much i uch after going hack back to save hla his team ills face mas bloated out of all semblance to that of a hu man bing being nothing could bo be seen of at mouth aeo iea or a even nose it wag nias all one pulpy mass out of which hundreds of tiny stings left by the bees in their assault could be seen sticking their back points in vivid contrast to the ast ft it purpling visage enen een the ears cars were sunk in level to tie the sides of swollen cheeks ills neive completely gone the man ran through the fields to tho the ranch house hero he be was met by mrs afro plane the wife ut the ow am rier ner who was horrified at the loathsome sight eight staf ford was waa almost insane with the pain help was and the man tallen taen into the kitchen of the round house here according to 1 di I long of fresno who was summoned as soon as aa pos possible bible after the discovery of what hod bad happened handfuls of were scraped out of stafford a face anti and bad bodi tilt th man had haa b been an wearing a thin shirt which afforded ng protection against again at his tormentors tor mentors and Ws his body was go as bloated and misshapen as hla his face ills ids arms anti and logs legs were enlarged to three umeo their natural else and aery body was filled with the tings stings a of afi the angry crea creatura 13 |
