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Show ' - i - ,' I, i ,.. HOG ATTACKS SLEEPING BABY At Union, Salt Lake county, last week, a shocking fate almost overtook a five-months-old baby. The child was saved from being devoured by a hog only by the timely arrival of its father. Before Be-fore the vicious animal could bo driven off it had severely bitten the baby's lips, one of its ears and one of its hands. The victim vic-tim of tho attack was the child of Mr. andfrMrs. P. W. Knudson. The baby was left in the care of its father, while the mother went to the store to make some purchases. Tho baby was placed in a go-cart in the shade of a tree, where it lay peacefully sleeping. Knudson went to attend at-tend to some work in connection with his irrigating ditches. While engaged in that work Knudson heard his baby scream. Rushing with all possible speed to tho place where ithe baby was, Knudson saw that a gigantic hog, which had been running at largo, had overturned the baby's go-cart and was ferociously attacking at-tacking the child. Knudson succeeded in driving off the hog, but n ot without a show of hfigt on the beast's part. As quickly as possible tho baby ba-by was taken to Murray, where itsjnjuries were dressed by JDr." V e Aoy'jgDr.v RoUvw.ell Ilfe i&lM40 'av $th&chikl |