Show BEES man THEIR HOMES UPSET BY RUN AWAY TEAM INSECTS STING ANIMALS TO DEATH DRIVER SERIOUSLY INJURED farmer may pay with his life for at tempt to rescue tortured beasts victim nearly insane with pain fresno cal stung to death by bees that may be the fate of robert stafford a teamster employed on the J C blane ranch near kerman thrown from a wagon upset by a run away team of four horses the driver was at the mercy ol 01 the infuriated in sects three of his horses are already dead from the effects of the stings and the remaining horse will die stafford would have escaped practically un harmed had he not stayed to tree free his team from the harness this may cost his life this unusual occurrence took place while stafford was driving home with a loaded wagon of hay no far from the ranch house there Is a small field used as an apiary by blane some 30 or 40 beehives are scattered about inside the inclosure As the team teara drew near the fence I 1 something frightened them and the horses breaking from the driver s con arol turned sharply across the road the hub of one of the wheels caught the fence and tore down the entire side the shock turned the team into the field and the horses panic strick en by this time raced across the ground knocking the hives right and left some 30 were strewn about the field before the driver realized what bad had happened long before the entire number was down the occupants of the hives first overthrown were buzzing angrily about the head of the driver stafford fought desperately with them but the stings increased and yelling the man ran rail from the field followed by the insects he ile had beaten most of his pursuers when he heard the frantic scream of a horse in agony then he remembered his team and braving the bees start ed back while battling to save his horses stafford fought the bees with hat and he could stand it no longer and fled hands managing to keep many of them away from him As he stooped to unfasten the harness of one of the horses that had fallen down however the foe took advantage of his posture and in a second fastened upon his face arms and person in uch such num bers that he looked like a cluster of bees in swarming time after a few moments of this agony he could stand it no longer and fled once outside of the field where they had made their home most of the bees left him and returned to the ani mals still entangled in their harness A few still stuck to him buzzing an about his ears this the man says he did not notice in fact stafford says he can cant t remember much after going back to save bis his team his face was bloated out of all semblance to that of a hu man being nothing could be seen of mouth eyes or even nose it was all one pulpy mass out of which hundreds of tiny stings left by the bees in their assault could be seen sticking their black points in vivid contrast to the fast purpling visage aven the ears were sunk in level to the sides of swollen cheeks his nerve completely gone the man ran through the fields to the ranch house here he was met by mrs blane the wife of the owner who was horrified at the loathsome sight staf ford was almost insane with the pain help was summoned and the man taken into the kitchen of the round house here according to dr long of fresno who was summoned as soon as possible after the discovery 0 of viliam had happened handfuls of stingers were scraped out of stafford s face and body the man had been wearing a thin shirt which afforded no protection against his tormentors and his body was as bloated and mis as his face his arms and legs were enlarged to three times their natural size and every portion of his body was filled with the stings of the angry creatures |