| Show A STORY OF CRUELTY THE nineteenth century for april contains a most extraordinary article written by nele loring the story is 18 simply a narrative of how bow he conducted a herd of steers from the rocky mountains to liverpool the railroad journey w was as su sufficiently but the of the keener sufferings of the poor creatures was waa when they were looked in the cars thirty six hours without food or water before embarking there were cattle put together so tightly that if ono one fell the others trampled on him bun and to make these fallen animals got get on their feet again they were pounded bounded over the noses till they aled bled water was poured doured in their ears earn and their tails were twisted until they hung limp and paralyzed and others of the steers had bron broken backs those whose backs were broken were not killed but in the ine rosis of the underwriter were leit left to the die a frightful death forty animals died from suffocation after fter one beau heavy nights rolling the after decks con contained coltaine taine such piles of steers that the foreman hauled them out oui to the upper deck with the steam winch alive and dead as they came to hand those that were alive were hoisted by a rope passed around their borns born in two or three cases the horns gave dav wa y while the steer ateer was in mid air and he fell back into the hatchway only to be hoisted a again gain I 1 I a mangled corpse and dropped over the the side aide the poor brutes who arrived at their destination alive cereso lean that they could not be fattened again but were at once slaughtered the beef must have been unfit for food being broken and bruised the writer of the article expresses the opinion that it must have been used for sausage such frightful inhumanity to dumb brutes should be stopped A |
