Show the boss snake story last list nighta ii ilits 0 denver at rio grandc grande t train r a in brought brou glit says the leadville chronicle three men who had just passed through an ordeal that is is terrible to contemplate and their many wounds go to show that the tile story they tell is but too true and horrible in its details th the e men arc are 13 W and george 11 white jr of pueblo and anath th mcgough of colorado springs they detail the account of their adventures about as follows nine miles from the mouth of cottonwood creek up tip the stream is a barren wilderness ot of scrubby under 9 growth crowth and bo bowl ders and rocks and to on oil the verdant shore of this pea sea of waste laud one would naturally conel conclude tide that they were many miles away from nowhere and and for aught they knew were tho first to discover this blank sea of waste barren worthless worthless flyspeck s c k on the abi shirt rt front of cea creation tiou the rhe men were on 9 fishing expedition and started Wed wednesday morning wednesday from the mou mouth th of the minue b baha stream to wend and wado wade their way toward its source when they reached the spot above mention ed here night overreached them and having a lunch they built a fire and made themselves as 03 con com fordable for table as possible on the surface of ofa a scraggy rock being tired and footsore as soon as their scanty repast was eagerly devoured they were soon reveling in dreams that perhaps are more inore or less pleasant to the mind while flit tn tins ing in i tho the realms of such fa fancies ocies one of the party had not been tan tangled 9 with long until he lie was awake something choking him and band feeling found his strange collar was cold and alit slimy y it was a very fine specimen oft of the he black species which was girding his All throttle in its anything but lovvig embrace the monster was soon dispatched and the party were about to lie down after ridding themselves of his bip when they found by the aid of the d dying Y embers and the assistance afforded e by the quarter moon that they were literally surrounded by the venom tongued trai trailers lero two of the party proposed to decamp for a more congenial clime but when about to leave the rock they found themselves trampling on a living sea of serpents the hissing and rattling became more audible and it was but a few minutes until it was as loud as ordinary toned voices the tile men finding they were thus surrounded broke branches from the astl stubby ibby undergrowth of pines and commenced lashing the writh writhing sea of darting hissing snakes realizing that they had an all night job they added fuel to th the e fire and secured the largest st sticks i eks obtainable and bommert commenced c ed the killing iu in earnest the light and i noise seemed to awaken the whole barren waste into a tempest of hissing and rattling each began the slaughter with redoubled vigor vainly to fight light his way to a stream some hundred yards away hway down a hill they would gain it fo few w paces aces ot 0 the distance distan cei only to be driven a back again to the rock the rattling and hissing became so loud that their voices were not audible unless cl close oseby by The sound was something like four or r five wheat separators in operation at one time it was terrible the hair on their heads beads was standing standi ng straight and stiff like the wires ofa of a patent hair brush their hands an and d arms firms were bloodstained blood stained to their elbows and the stench stencil from the snake battlefield battle field was esick ning in the extreme one hour after the first snake was killed no less than lay slain and hey kept coming thicker and faster the sound became hideous and soon the moon disappeared and the three fishermen felt that hell hall had sweeter charms than the place it seemed their fate to die the in two of the men were bitten and their legs and aud arms began to swell and pain badly and the they y frequently had to rest and permit in it one to do the killing of three the hours wore slowly by and the slaughter was kept up as best ti they 1 e I 1 could at last morning came a and n lifted the curtain of night fram a it most appalling scene for fifty feet all around the huge rock lay a heap of stunned squirming and find dead snakes As far as they could gee see all around the barren waste was a seething tide of reptiles that came toward the rock with mid maddening dening fury concluding that they might ag as well earn deeth by a dearer fate they made ready to run for the tile stream thinking that if they gained tha the other side they would have a better chance to care for their wounds so leaping as far aa as possible from the tile rock frantic struggling bitten and wild with pain they ey plunged into int 0 the water and reached the other side cow completely plemely ely overcome by the tile terrible ot deal passed through and after some time bandaged their bleeding and swollen limbs by 9 they were sufficiently r recovered C C overe d to continue to cottonwood springs where they took the first train to leadville to secure medical aid arriving here her e last night the unfortunate men imell are 73 7 3 now under the caro care of dr 1 D H D dougan 0 ug an the aliey describe tho tile snakes as us being specimen of nil all kinds such as ad dere vipers copperheads copper heads rattlers milk house 1 p reen and black and among them were nvere two hoop snakes aud and a i racer which they declare was was no less than 22 feet long the doctor gays says the men are not fatally bitten but it will be some time before tho the swelling and pain will disappear they leave on oil to nights train for their respective homes feeling that they have had enough fishing and an a abunda bunda uco of snakes for one excursion |