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Show UON LOOSE In n Fiprenii Car nnd Devoured & lirito of Poultry. Cumberland (,Md.) Special to Now Vork Journal: Terrifying growls U-ued U-ued from nn express ear of u train that passed through here the other day bound for Philadelphia. A Hon was In possession, freed from hlB cage, slaughtering slaugh-tering chickens by wholesale. Conductor Con-ductor :uid brakonien kept as far away ns their duties would permit. Half a dozen HaRenheck's men were gathered in the caboose, gloomily wondering what they could do to rettUire the monster mon-ster to confinement. When the train slopped here for water they were at their wit's eud. Mnny of the inhabitants inhabit-ants flocked to the station to listen, at a safe distance, to the pandemonium that raged In tho express car. There was a continuous fluttering; nnd screaming the hysteilcal distress of a barnyard punctuated by one craBh nfter another as the his brute destroyed I ho poultry crates around hlra, amid vibrant roars that sent the crowd staggering backward. No one dared to enter tho ear. The animal trainers in tho caboose were only too thankful to be divided from their charge by stout wooden walls. Accustomed as they were to subdue wild beasts, they realized real-ized that this lion, which had glutted himself on living prey, would rend any man who approached him. Through a grating in the side of the car they rould see him from time to time, his muEKle stained with blood and bristling bristl-ing with feathers. All about him lay the mutilated bodies of birds he had seized without devouring them. Tha survivors flew hither and thither frantically, fran-tically, sometimes hitting the roof and dropping back again to the floor. None of those responsible for the lion's s-nfe keeping could imagine how he had broken from his cage, but It was easy to conceive he had been maddened by the heat and darkness and jolting of railway traveling, aggravated as it must have been by the sound and smell of life in the crates all about him. It was agreed that the only thing to do was to continue the journey to Philadelphia Phila-delphia with all possible speed, and there take steps at leisure to either capture or kill the bloodthirsty animal. And so the train rumblsd on with 'ie lion in possession. |