Eureka Reporter | 1905-06-09 | Page 6 | Trainer Fought for Life

TRAINER FOUGHT FOR life lif E wrestling bout with lion turn ta grim reality an athlete named key connected with the bostock animal show had a narrow escape from death one day this week says a paris special to the kansas city journal he was en in putting the wrestling lion brutus through his daily practice when the brute unexpectedly fastened its teeth in his jacket the trainer stopped wrestling and tried to disen gage himself by withdrawing from the jacket and leaving it in the lion s pos sessions but he was unable lo 10 do this and brutus becoming actually savage warmed to the encounter and began to tear the trainer about the shoulders and sides although bleed ing freely from fifty wounds rey who is a powerful athletic yoking fellow kept his head and realizing that he w as at the mercy ot the brute it he fell kept him off as best he could by this time mr bostock and hia assistants had gathered around the cage trying to rescue the trainer and watched with apprehension the bealls tic combat between the man and the lion the wrestling bout which had commenced in the usual playful man ner had developed into a grim con test in which one of the combatants was fighting for his life and for fully two minutes his fate seemed sealed rey kept up the unequal contest but a further difficulty in the way of bis rescue was the tact that in a cage communicating with that of brutus a companion lion was making desperate efforts to force an entry through a halt open door at last brutus was lasso oed by mr bostock and dragged into the adjoin ing cage after rey had been ban caged in the hippodrome infirmary he was taken to the rothschild hospital where the doctors said it blood prison ing did not set inthey hoped to save him