Show A FIERCE BATTLE WITH RATTLERS reptiles at large in express car give messenger a night ot of horror ESCAPED FROM B BOX ar also contained three dead oodles bodies and half dozen crates crate of chickens chicken the snakes snake perched on coffins coffin and ate the fowls fowl new york just to show the public that the sh phlp ap n newsmen 0 esmen a corner on real live tales the jersey city correspondents ot of new york newspapers went down to meet the trains the other day to see it there was 0 any ny news from the west and wh what t do you thiekl As no 4 rolled into the station at pavonia avenue at 85 a m out of the baggage car leaped a pale haggard man who was none other than william conklin express messenger who makes the run from salamanca N Y to jersey city mil bill fell into the arms ot of bystanders by and was carried over to a baggage truck track along came andy patterson baggage man on the train also much the worse for wear both let it be written down right here now are total abstainers abstain ers keep everybody away from that express earl bill gas gasped p ed it its a full df at sn snakes akeel 1 Terril terrified led everybody ran to look into the car to see bee the Bi lakes they see bee any and returned to hear dills bills story there are four rattle rattlesnakes lu in that car as big as boa constrictors constrict oro al most said dill bill after he had been propped up and handed a strong glass of chocolate ice cream soda 1 11 I ought em all night in the dark andy he helped me andy nodded confirmation it was this way dill bill explained 1 I took the express car at salamanca and aid when I 1 got aboard the messenger I 1 relieved got receipts from me for among other things three bodle bodies four our rattlesnakes in a box and ha halt if it a dozen crates of chickens we were boomla along early this nomine morning before daylight and the first I 1 N rattlesnakes above and below thing I 1 knew I 1 looked up and there were four rattlesnakes twisted around the bracket that held the lamp 1 I was seared scared I 1 can ride along with a body without feelen squeamish but nix on the rattlesnakes I 1 picked up a camall package the first thing thine I 1 got my hands bands on and heaved it at the snakes ker smash binash went my only light and there was I 1 in the dark with four rattlesnakes tle and the train was coln to so fast that I 1 did not feel like jump j u m in a and besides I 1 had bad to deliver le cm tp 1 I lighted matches and got hold ot of my gun and started after them dut but interrupted one of the crowd were you going to kill these snakes sure it if I 1 got a chance said lift fervently 1 I did not have any contract to deliver live anak snakes es snakes that was all the bill of lading called for dead or alive the express rate Is the samo same so I 1 chased em around the ca car r they were kind ot of afraid and ran ran ran all around the car and a finally na ily perched un on top or of tb the 0 coffin coning pI just as aa cute as could bo be I 1 was bol tjoen n to s h abot bot then I 1 remembered the coffins w were e re hermetically sealed and that I 1 put a bullet in em 11 then I 1 began beean shooting for help the bullets went through the roof andy ho be came from the next car and he ie solved the problem what did he be do asked the re porter ile he chased the snakes into the thicken crates and they began eat in chickens you never see chickens so 90 eo 60 fatt the snakes must have eaten a dozen apiece yes yas yes from the eair reporter aliat 1 I at then we lay down and went to sleep but the snakes they still Janger oual not a bit sald bill they ate so BO many chickens that they get lint ut of the crate t |