Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-07-22 | Page 1 | Coolness of Roosevelt Saves Him from Death

COOLNESS OF ROOSEVELT SAVES HIM FROM DEATH 1 V ASHA British East st Africa N July 21 That Theodore Roosevelt loose Roose elt velt Is Js alive c tolla today Is duo due to his coolness and wonderful marksmanship marks marks- manship While on L Lake Lako yesterday seeking seeking- a ca calf hippopotamus which is wanted for tor the collection of ot the lie Smithsonian Smith Institution twelve o hippopotamuses muses m surrounded his hilt craft threatening with over every overy move to upset It and amid spill the former President and und his into lute tho the lake where the they hey would woul have o mot Instant death for the hippopotami were almost mad with fear tear and were attacking tho the small boat with savage frenz frenzy Several Se literally hurled themselves them them- SOlves selves against the ho sides of or tho ho little rowboat while two or three dived deep leop Into tho ho waters of or tho the hake lako und antI came como up under tinder time the boat striking It with their backs In iii an nn attempt to overturn o it and throw Us Its occupants Into the tho lie water The native boatmen were cro In a panic Shouting Shouting- In to Ills his men inert to sit slL still NUll a warning which tho they were too tuo fright fright- ened to heed Col Roosevelt seized his hili hea heavy express rifle and unel selected a magI magnificent mag mag- I cow hippopotamus which seemed to be leader lender of the attack This hippopotamus he lie killed with one shot and with the next shot ho killed a n magnificent mag mug specimen of a bull hippopotamus mus tho ho finest killed In this vicinity in years ears Firing rapidly and with unerrIng unerring un un- un- un erring accuracy the colonel killed the monster animals and time the others took fright and fled Cled It was sometime before Col Roosevelt Roose- Roose velt eit could cairn down clown his frightened porters sufficiently to make thorn row his boats alongside time the dead dea animals animal which wore were floating down At 3 u. u m. m the he launch arrived back In camp There Thero hall hail been no sleep among tho the me members of the time party part and they were were all on the time beach bench Col Roosevelt insisted that the time hippopotamuses hip hip- be bo towed back ack to camp and It took look tho the launch several hours to tow them ii In where tho they were seized upon by tho he Smithsonian onlan members who into declared the they tho the finest se secured so- so cured during the entire hunt