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Show "BESIEGED W HlJVCRy TIGETRS. j Community In India &error- ( lz.ed by Man Eating "Beasts of thc Jungle. I The pollic station at Kiitlgorn, India, was u few days ago the scenu of great excitement and horror when the corpse of unfortunate Nldan I'ntnl, who met his lamentable death from the clnws of a tiger, wns carried there for Inspection, Inspec-tion, says the Weekly Indian Chronicle. Chron-icle. Four persons were killed during tho course of a few weeks, besides a number num-ber of persons mauled, while carrying awny of cnttle Is going on almost every day Thc tigers that have caused sc great a havoc here lire now proved to be four In number, one tiger, one tigress ti-gress nnd two big cubs, and the sympathetic sym-pathetic deputy commissioner Is said to hnve offered n reward for the de-1 structlon of each of them. The fsroclou brutes, having taken their abode by the side of thc only Important Im-portant road leading from Kntlgora to the village of Gangnpur, have practically prac-tically Inld siege to the v Hinge, with the result that communication on foot has been stopped. Several attempts that lind been mndo to afford relief J to the unfortunate villagers were nil ' unsuccessful. A party of local shlkurles, mustering I strong and equipped with firearms, i marched Into the Jungle at tho head ' of the energetic Nalb Tchslldar Maul- I vl Mohammed Israll to hunt the tigers, but with all their efforts they could i ijrit make the muster stripes come out ' of their recess The next dny, how- ' ever, another party, consisting of four European gentlemen, with n largo iiiev Huccia:ii:ji in aiiousi.no tiil ti- OEItS. number of coolies, surrounded the Jun gle and succeeded in arousing the tigers, ti-gers, which managed to escape through the line without giving the hunters an opportunity of discharging their bill lets. They pursued the animals and made thorn swim across a heel. It Is a matter mat-ter of icgiet that the brave hunters fulled to hit the animals while they were struggling In tho water, although a good number of shots were llred. The tigers got to tho other ildo of tho leel without encountering further opposition op-position nnd 1A upon the said Mduu Tntnl, who was grazing cuttle near his bouse, and killed btui u Uie spot. |
