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Show TRAINS CHARGED BY BUFFALOES In pioneer days tho railroad crossing cross-ing the plains were often delayed for many hours by buffaloes. Sometimes they caueed moro serious trouble. In 1871 and 1872 trains on the Atchison, Topoka & Santa Fe railroad wero charged by tho enraged beasts, cars wero derailed and overturned and tho lives of train crews and passengers endangered. Many tales of hairbreadth escapes were related to small parties of soldiers, sol-diers, frontiersmen and emigrants, and it is possible that many an emigrant emi-grant wagon with its occupants that left the Missouri river and was never seen again was overwhelmed to the buffaloes rather than wiped out of existence ex-istence by the Indians, to whom an unexplained disappearances were attributed. at-tributed. I argo buffalo bulls weighed 2.000 pounds or more, and cows weighed In the neighborhood of 1,200 pounds. Herds numbering many thousands wore-' really irresistible and In a stampede stam-pede enrried all boforc them. Outing. |