The New York Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1874, Page 3

AWFUL CALAMITY. The Wild Animals Broken Loose from Central Park. TERRIBLE SCENES OF MUTILATION A Shocking Sabbath Carnival of Death. SAVAGE BRUTES AT LARGE Awtal Combats Between the Beasts and the Citizens. THE KILLED AND WOUNDED General Duryee’s Magnificent Police Tactics. BRAVERY AND PANIC How~ the Catastrophe Was Brought Abont---Affrighting Incidents. PROCLAMATION BY THE MAYOR Governor Dix Shoots the Bengal Tiger in the Street, CONSTERNATION IN THE CITY Another Sunday of horror has been added to those already memorable in our city annals. The #ad and appalling catastrophe of yesterday is a farther illustration of the unforeseen perils to Which large communities are exposed. Writing tven at a late hour, without full details of the terrora of the evening and night, and with a Mecessarily incomplete list of the killed and mutilated, we may pause for a moment in the widespread sorrow of the hour to cast @ hasty glance over what will be felt as ® great calamity for many years. Few of the millions who have visited Central Park, and who, passing in through the entrance at East Sixty-foarth street, have stopped to examine the @ollection of birds and animals grouped around the old Arsenal building, could by any possibility | ave foreseen the source of such terrible danger © a whole city in the caged beasts around him, as | the trivial incident of yesterday alteraoon devel- Oped. The unfortunate man to whose fatal im- prudenee all accounts attribute the outbreak ef the wild animals ot the menagerie has answered with his life for bis temerity, but we havea Wst of calamities traceable from nis sct ‘which one lite seems inadequate , to ex- plate. We have a@ list of torty-nine killed, of which only twenty-seven bodies have been identified, and i¢ is much to be feared that tls large total of fatalities will be much increased ‘With the return of daylight. The lst of mutilated, trampled and injured in various ways must reach early 200 persons of all ages, of which, so far as Known, about sixty are very serious, and of these (otter three can hardly outiast the night. Many of the slightly injured were taken to their homes, bo that for at leust another day the full extent of the calamity cannot be meas- ared, We have only to hope that mo further {atalities will occur. Twelve of the mivorous beasts are still at large, their tur! places not being known for a cer- tainty, but the citizens may rest assured that if they will only exercise ordinary prudence and leave the task of hunting down the animais to the Buthorities, who have, somewhat tardily, taken the matter in hand, there wili bano farther casu- Glties to register as the outcome of the unfortu- gate act of a reckless keeper in Central Park. It ‘Was af apparently smali cause for a huge and hor- Pible result, but tne overturning ofa kerosene lamp in 8 dingy cowsned in Chicago laid the Queen vity Othe West in ashes, and the spark from a hod car- tier's pipe was parent to the flames that destroyed im a night the great granite buildings of Boston as if the solid stones were iuel, Itis not jong since a herd of Texan cattle throw New York's million of Buman beings into consternation, defied the police force and injured so many, It was at Weast to be hoped that the somewhat Gimilar, although more tearful calamity of the breaking loose of the wild beasts at Central Park would have found Superintendent Wailing with some plan to meet the emergency. In all such cases promptitade 1s invaluabie, and although General Duryee deserves credit for his plan, (ormed, we are assured, on the instant, and carried out so jar with effect, we must regret that he was not earlier informed of the terrible event. 4 velegram irom police headquarters to the Gen- bral’s residence did not reach him, and thus @ val- Qeble hour was lost, as he was first informed of the catastrophe by seeing the mutilated body of the unfortunate sewing girl, An- mie Thomas, vorne on an improvised Mretcher to the Thirty-frst precinct station house, near West Eighty-sixth street. He was visiting at tue house of @ friend, and the passing erowd with the mournful burden on the shoulders Of the police, attracted the attention of a young Gaughter of his friends. Her screams brought ths entire party to the Windows, In an instant the Gen- eral was iu tne street. Learning trom a hundred tongues the horrible trath in the few words, “the wild animals at the Park have broken loose,” he Fan like @ deer to the station house, and seating ‘Bimeeif by the telegraph instrument directed (rom that point the operations which first resulted in Staying the panic. Had he lost the time which { would have taken to reach Police Headquarters, it i impossible to say where the panic and afright and their consequent fatalities would have ended, Commissioners Matsell and Dis- becker were heard trom at various points through- out the evening, but their efforts were not of a Buture to produce any good result. Orders and counter orders were issued by them in confusing succession, Happily the steps taken by General Duryee made them practically subordinates and @iminished their ineMclency—to give their stam- peded zeal no harsher term. Commissioner Voor- bis could not be found during the entire evening. To General Snaler, also, the thanks of tho com- munity are due. His promptitude in call- ing out the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Bixty-ninth regiments, a call monfully responded $0, and piaciug them at the service of General Duryee deserves unqualitied praise, it 1s to be hoped, too, that the proclamation issued by Mayor NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1874.~ Shaler and Commissioner Duryee, will meet with the obedience which its gravity merits. Disct- Pline is the only means of meeting and conquer- ing such an untoward chain of circumstances, and we here pomt out that the obedience which is given by the militia to General Snater, by the po- lice to General Duryee, the heroof the hour, should be cheerfully rendered by the citizens at large to the proclamation o! his Honor the Mayor. | The deaths ana mutilations are already too numerous to risk their increase, and the authori- es will only serve the common cause by en- forcing the law against those whose curiosity leads them to dely the mundates of the civil power. The following is the Mayor’s proclamation:— A Proclamation. Mayon’s Orvice, Sunpay Nicuz, Nov. 1, 1874, All citizens, except members of the National Guard, are enjoined to keep within their houses or residences until the wild animals now at large are captured or killed. Notice of the release from this order will be spread by the firing of cannon in City Hall Park, Tomp- kins square, Madison square, The Round and at Macomb's Dam Bridge. Obedience to this order will secure a ly.end to the state of — occasioned by the calamity of this even- ‘An account will be ed at the City Hall of the city of New York for contributions to the sufferers. THE CATASTROPHE, Park 1a well known to most New Yorkers; but it Appears that changes were made recently in the the exact nature of the catastrophe it becomes necessary to indicate where the various animals were situated yesterday when the iright/ul event Occurred that spread guch terror tbroughout the city, Ifyou enter the menagerie from Fittn ave- nue you will find on either hand, running parallel to the street, the houses where the herbivorous beasts were domicied, In former times several bears from the norcherl regions oceupied the | rignt hand corner, where a few beautiful zebras lately gladdened the eye. To the extreme leit were the cages of the several foreign biras formerly de- voted to a large collection of monkeys, ‘To the ex- treme right were the vultures and eagies, and the visitor, by making @ short circuit of the large building, known 1u Umes gone by as the Arsenal, found himself in front of @ handsome wooden structure, one story high, where tne principal wild animals resided. Of course the residence of the sea llon was known to everybody. On the in- side of the garden the stately giraffe occupied a somewhat large enclosure, and adjacent were a bumber of pelicans, intermingled with several specimens of the ostrich trine. The bears were in isolated cages on the green sward, near the com- | mon pedestrian route from the Fifth avenue en- trance, TUB PROMINENT ANIMALS in the quadrangle nearest to Filth avenue were the bison, the nylghau, the zebu, the sacred bull, cow and call, the zebras, the young eleptant, tne capybara, the guanaco, the fat tailed Syrian var, the aoudad and tue fallow deer. In the valuable monkey collection was the sooty mangabey, the ponuet macaque, the Toque monkey, the pigtaiied monkey, the Arabian bavoon, the biack handed spider monkey, tne brown capuchin, the Teetee and the biack eared marmoser, such was the scene before * THR TERRIBLE EVENTS of yesterday—tne bursting forth of the most Jerocious of the beasts within the menagerie of the Park, tue awtul slaughter tnat ensued, the ex- citing conflicts between tne taofuriated unimais, the irightral deaths that followed, the destraction of property and the feariul and general excite- ment, making an era inthe history of New York not soon to be jorgotten, How singular that Sunday, of all days in tue week, should make the occasion of such great panics a8 mark tue record Of the past jour years, It Was a Sabbath morning that witnessed the destruction of Chicago and Boston, and @ Saobatn afternoon bebela tne streets Of New York given up to the fury of a drove of Texan cattle, It was on a Sabbath that the Westfield exploded her voller. But yesterday capped the climax of unthougnt possibilities, and 4 Was the Sabvath, too, that deepened the sizni- ficance of the great disaster. As everybouy Kuows, the Central Park on Sua- day is the popular resort of all classes, The rich aud iasuionavle to their carriages and the poor and humble on foot, alike sally forth to. aloy its beauties. 16 18 sate to [wsnat at leas! 20,000 le filled the rious = walks, drives and avenues yesterday. of the pedestrian ‘visitors 18 @ chiefsource of attraction. To nine-tenths the Menagerie Tout it contuined the elements of sanguiniary disaster to a multi- tude of human beings hardly entered mto the philosophy of anyvody, it would be vain of the Writer to presume binself capavie of picturing the harrowing scenes o1 whicu he was distressed and involuntary spectator, an adequate conception of the frigutiul imcident wiuere Lincoln, the Numidian lion, urged tu inde- flanks ao4 shoulders jumped into u lundaulet oc- cupied by @ vursemaid and her tour young ull sigu of recognition, would be a difticult tas: but let me endeuvor to descrive the feariul scenes with gowe attempt at order. My head is 80 con- Jused and my Lerves so uustrung with the Jearful Scenes through wnich I have passed that I coniess Tam baraly equal to picturing them. FIRST OMINOUS BYMPTOMS, ‘Ihe writer stood wituin a hundred yards of the Menagerie when the first ommous Aprons of the approaching catastropne were heard. ‘The doors or the ma:n structure, wherein the princi al Wild animiais were cuntined, were closed at ve o’ciock, Hundred of people, men, women and chiluren, were still lingering in the vicinity. Five or six of the Park police were stationed in the neighborhood. One siood at the entrance on Futh avenue and Sixty-iourth street, making a record of the number of visitors passing 53 Another was stationed tora similar purpose on the roadway spprosching from the southeastern entrance, at tue coraer of Fifty-ninth street, Within tne arsenal there appears to have been a umber of the Park police. the Captain was off Guvy aud did nov appear unul late at night, Mr. Conkiin, the director o! the menagerie, was at bis post, like a guod soldier. It was A CALM, PEACEVUL AND PLEASING SCENE in the early hours of the aiteruoon. Children ran about from cage to cage in the periect fulness of delight. A stream of people released (rom tne cares and labors of the week wandered through the grounds, pausing here to admire the beaatiiul zebras and stopping there to luagh over the amusing antics of the monkeys. ‘Ihe idea of dan- ger could only be suggested to create laughter and derision. Certuinly nubody serio the possibility o: peril where seemingly inussive cages restrained the wild and savage instincts of | the various beasts of prey. ‘The rhinoceros ap- | peared the PICTURE OF STUPID AMIABILITY the Numidian hun wore # look of the grossest tndo- lence, the Bengal tiger seemed as barmi sa prostrate forest tree, the tears invited a caressing acquaintance, the boa constrictor migut have been petted with the hand, the elephant eating viscuits trom the fingers of a little caild suggested an ex- treine condittun of tameness and uci io al the rest, saving the restless and. savage-eyed hyena, the spirit of the day appeared to dwell, THK ORIGIN OF THE AWFUL CALAMITY, In a very lew mometta the whgie aspect was destined to be chanyed. It tg noW weil authenti- cuted that Ch Audersoa the keeper, one of Whowe Charges was Pete, the rhinoceros, in walk- ing around alter the puolic was exciuded, stopped 1 Iront O1 (he den of tne huge animal above men- tioned. He was seen to poke his cane through the bars at the greut beast, aud was warned by Keeper Miller to desist. The latter was icavmg the building at the moment he remonstrated wita Andeérzou, and to this circumstance, douotiess, owes bis iife, He says that Keeper Hyland wiso called out to Anderson. ‘The latter had @ fashion, it appears, of teasing the animals, although he was often known to eject ' persons trom the building for similar practices. Anderson paid uo atiention to the warnings of bis fellow keepers, and, tt is Chougut, a heedless thrust must wave entered tue eye of the rhinocer A num ber of voys who were beering in throug the win- dows ou the north side of the building attracted the attention of the writer by tneir cries, “LOOK, HK'S WREAKING OUT I? There was a crasning heard within and the boya Were seeu to tee precipttately, {rushed to tne window, drawn by @ curtosity woich was irre- Gixtivie, My example was soon lollawed by others, Mauy women rtroggling, for u place. It Was some moments belore | could make out what was trauspiring Within. A keeper was standing in the inidale of the open space upparently spell- bound. Another was standing surther down, grasp- Ing & crow bar, fis gaze directed toward the pen of the rhinoceros. The short, angry, squeaking cry ot the rhinoceros, like sudden biasts on a tisnhorn, were heard amid the sound of snapping bars aad crasning planks, It at once struck me that the huge animal was breaking down the walls of his pen in the endeavor douvtiess to reach lus tormentor. Not aware of any cause for this suddeu exhivition of rage, Hone Of the fascinated crowd at the win- Gow measured the danger of their position or the objsct Ol the imiuriuted beast. The keeper alterward jound to be derson) now rosied forward and struck at the antmal. We could not see whether his blows reached the rhinoceros or not, but their effect was soon told. Acrash which shook the butlaing followed and the ven iell outward and the horrid, ais- the rhinoceros, rushed vut, head close to the ground, to ev a Anderson mad [Shay aunties et The location of the soological collection in the | disposition of the various animals, and to realize | To give, jor instance, | scribable tury by tne buliets that pierced his | charges, mangling tne delicate little things past | ly contemplated | | safety by thta means but | close to the he was too latter, Kim down with @ touch of his shouidgr, and an in- | Sant aiter had trampled him out of recognition. | Backing down from the mangied body with a | swittness almost incredible trom tis bulk, the rhinoceros piubged his horrid horn into the dead keeper, dashing the last possivle spark of lifet ou against the wails ofune of the pens, which like- Wise gave way. Ali this tragedy transpired in an Instaut, Horror stricken, | tried to pash wy way Jrom the window, Dut the crowd was vow dense behind me, and | could not stir, t cred:— | . “Por God's sake, let some one run to the police | station tor help! I struggled to get out, puttiny my hands against the window and my leet below it, and pushing with all my might. An accursed curiosity in the | crowd, who were oniy vaguely conscious of what ; Was trauspiring, made my efforts useless. When J looked in through the window again the destruc- tion at the further end had increased, the rhino- ceros breaking open the dens of tue animals on | the left bund side, THE KREPER, HYLAND, whom I had first seen standing spellbound, was advancing, pale as marble, and a navy revolver in bis hand, toward the enraged rhinoceros. The antmal saw bim, turned and made jor him in an instant, He sprang aside and fired. The ball hit the rhinoceros on the leit shoulder, for he swerved over for an instant; but it can scarcely have more than hurt him @ litte, as he turned with & whit, whi whiff snort, hig head down toward the keeper. The latter, with cat-like agility, retreated toward the lions’ and tigers?’ cages, evidently making for the space between them; but tov late. ‘The horrid horn impaled him against the corner cage, killing him instantly, tearing the Cage to pieces and releasing the pan- ther, Who landed in the middle of the open space with @ spring. The cries of all the animals were now joimed tu horrid chorus by the loud and long- sustained roar o! the lion ana lioness, the tigers and ail the wild beasts, that ddubtiess had their carniverous instincts whetted by the sme!l of bu- man biood and the sound anda sigat of the bloody struggles outside their bars. “THE WILD ANIMALS ARE LOOSE,” Tyelled, and the savage chorus within bore out my words. At last curiosity seemed to give way. ‘The crowd fed in all directions, women falling as they ran, and no one staying to help them out of the way of the coming danger, waich was then #haping itself so swiltiy. 1 ran to the police station | iu tae Arseaal Building, aud found that the ser- geant on duty was dozing quietly. I shook him ‘Up, told him in a ‘few words what was the matter, | and ran round to the space tu Jront of the Arsenal. ‘There I found Keeper Miller talking to the police. man, who was just coming off duty, Milierlaughed at my story. some around,” I said earnestly. ‘00 thin, young fellow,’ said the policeman, Don’t you hear?” I said, as the roaring of the animals sounded ominonsiy in our ears. The sergeant now came running out in search of the policeman, “Anderson and Hyland are killed,” said he to Miller. “Why don’t yeu stir yourself.’ Miller is o tall, stalwart man of about thirty- | three, and itis but just to say that irom the mo- Ment the sergeant spoke he sprang into action. | He rushed into the keeper's room and grasped a | sixteen shooter ride, whieh is kept loaded for | such emergeucies, and ran out through | the central door in the rear ef the Arsenal to the window the crowd had just deserted. What he saw evidently appalled him, as he let the butt of bis rifie fall to the ground and continued gazing im through the window like one in a dream. From Mis own lips I bave learned what he saw. He sald :— “An attentive glance through the window re- vealed the tact that THE HUGE RHINOCEROS HAD BROKEN LOOSE. He had apparently made no more of the massive barrier that enclosed him than of a sheet of paste- board. 1 saw the dead bodies of Hylaud and Anderson, tte 1ormer nearer to me than the other. The panther was crouched over Hyland’s body, | knawing horribly at his head. I recognized his body by the striped shirt which I could just | see banging tattered irom the arm. It was gro’ ing dark, aud this made everything look twice as | fearful. Isaw the rhinoceros pluuge blindly for- ward against the double tier of cages where the black and spotted leopards, the striped hyena, tue pratie woll, the puma and the jaguar were lying. Judging from the couuition of the cages the onset orthe powertul and infuriated rhincceros must | have been tremendous. In some cases the bars | were only bent to an elbow, but, as a rule, they snapped asunder like kindling wood betore the | smashing wetzht brougnt against them TRE RELEASE OF THE ANIMALS mentioned angered sttil more the jions and tigers | and all the rest withtn the building. The rhino. | ceros in the meantime was busy in the work of destruction. In a few moments more he had | broken down the pens of the wild swine, the man- atee, the American tapir, the two-toed sloth and the pair of kangaroos, Just then, too, Lincoln, the Numidian lion escaped irom his cage, through some uufortonste oversight com- mitted at feeding time The bolt of bis prison door was insecure, and when the raging rhinocefos butted nis head against the bottom it flew wide open. Hardly had Lincwin the Hon | bounded into the centre aisle of the. Paget Y | when the three cages containing the black and | spotted leopards, the tiger and tineresses, the black woll! and the striped and spotted | hyenas were sprang open by an overpowering | charge from the now desperate rhinoceros, | The noise of this craso ight have been series ‘fights Close by a window on the western sive of t buldt the biack wolf sprung upon the flau! of the Bengal tiger. The lion stood a little di tance away pawing the floor, awaiting rather | than offering an attack. Between the wolf and tiger the conflict was brief, The latter, shaking off the teeble hold of the other, turne, anck as lightning on his bind legs, and failing, sh open, gleaming jaws, upon his less muscular foe, rolied him over in the dust. The great fight ensued OVER THE BODY | of poor, brave Hyland. There was evidently a — fight over the body of Anderson; but | couid see | noting more than a mingling, gieaming mass, Whence arose the most awful cries, Nearer to me, | where Hyland Jay, tne lioness, the panther, the | puma, and presently the Bengal tiger, were rolling | Over and over, striking at each other with their | mighty paws, The lioness tore the skin off the puma’s flank with one blow. The coming of | the tiger was something terrible. I never shall | forget the awiul, splendid look of him as he landed | with a spring in the thick of them. Icould not move. It was too awiul for anything. Oddly enough, | while the fight was going on, now ove furious beast tugging and crunching at the arms or le; oO! the curpse, now letting go with his teeth to plant his paws upon the bleeding remains and | | snap with dripping jaws at another beast, | writhing and awful as they were, [cou.d not help | looking at Lincoln, the lion, who was standing be- { Rind them, pawing the ground, roaring and lash- | ing bis sides wit his tail, every muscle in uneasy tenaion, All of a sudden J had a fisan. “BY GOD, HE’S LOOKING aT MB,” Igaid to myself. {t seems to me I felt him looking at me. 1 saw him crouch. I turned and rap. God, [had no idea there was anybody near me, Miller had uot been a minute anda hali at the window when I saw him rua towards me, shout- ing, at the top o! bis lungs, “THEY'RE COMING; THRY’RE ALL LOOSE.” It 18 here nevessary to explain Miller's state- ment. “My God? | had no idea there waa any- body near me.” Those who ran from the window in the first instance had not run far before they looked back. There was. of course no pursuit, and @ great many hogered by, but at @ sale distanve. ‘The coming of the keeper, how- ever; his standing listless looking betore the window for over a minute, had had the effect of inspiring a returo of confldence in the more curious, ad when Anderson, (rightened by the eve of the lion, ran precipitacely toward the Arsenal there were perhaps a dozen persons near the window. He had only sped a few paces when, with a terrific roar LINCOLN, THE LION, CAME CRASHING THROUGH THR GLass. \ saw a young man fall from a blow of the awful paw, and another crushed to earth beneath the beast’s weight. The crowd fled tn all directions, but the lion did not pursue. Planting his paws Upon one of tne bodies be filled the air with the feariul rumble of his roar. I started to run, bat Miller called on me to stop. I turned and saw him kneel down deliberately and take aim. There was a good chance for a sbot, as the lion stood almost facing him, but with the right shoulder more toward him. I have no reason to doubt the steadiness of Miller or his Teputation a8 a shot, buc | watted wita inpent breath as he took aim. He haa bit him. I could Hot see where, but the wound was far from fatal. ‘The bellowings were renewed, his mane erect, bis tail switching his sides, whtle he pawed the earth | and swung his huge head from side to side. Drawn by the report of the ride and the roaring of the beasts, crowds of Peet dt were entering the en- closure from the Sixty-fourtn street entrance. I saw that already a number of Park POLICE, ARMED WITH REVOLVERS, and citizens with rifes, were on the ground. I had no weapon and go ran down the incline by the iresnment stand, toward Fifth avenue; and ost On wy hecis, as it were, came the Numidian lion, witn & series of bounds. So sudden, fierce and poweriul was the leap he made info tne miust O1 the storming party that be paralyzed the coolest calculations and scattered half w hundred armed and unarmed men like chaff before the wind, Springing in the air over the stooped form of Policeman Murray, Who ducked in time to save himself trom possible aeath, Lincoln landed in a fast widening CIRCLE OF PRAR-STHICKEN PROPLY, of fainting Women, screaming chilireu and terri- fied men, Lincoln paused lor perhaps a second, lushing himseli with his tail and glaring horribly around him. On the ground betore him were two young me, who had tripped and falien in the pre- cipitate resreat jrom before the buiiding. They Were struggling fast to rise, and had nearly suc- ceeded, when Lincoin, with another awful roar that echoed over tne Park, pouaced upon the nearest, and, with one stroke of his fore paw, tore clothes and flesh to pieces, A shout of horror Went up from the distant witnesses of the deed; but they were given littie time to meditate upon it. J was just in the apgie between the two aviaries, which contained yesterday the doves und the eagles respectively, When the jast mentioned deea of blood Was enacted. 1 was avout to escape by rushing past the house where the wiid animals were caved, and had just reached the pate vear the sea hon’s tank, When what i had soared mos: came to pass. ‘The rhinocerus, in bis tuiuriat had as last found the gate and ouree! crashed wait itdt Genes ana tena coun! paaty, Waich been, by Colonel J | inclogure, or rataer being heard several blocks away, It was followed by a.)..Kuled ti ries of hetween the osraced” toaster wate | sewing gir! in, of Keepers, citizens ana police ,, Fifty-ninth street entrance, and 'w poweriully aided by the arrival of a | ‘latoon from | ihe Nineteenth precinct, under Cap cain Gunner and Mr. Hunt, of Ninety-third street, was thin # hundred yards of the bu Uding when | rninoceros emerged, giving ls é -hort, vicious | cry. His appearance was the sigua | lor a misdi- | rected volley, which, of course, did Iu .tle or no ex- ecution On nis thick, tough hide and double-hora- | protected proboscis. It confused b im womenta- rily, however, for he turned and r tered the | building on @ sort of ambing tro ¢, Misled by this retreat @ cheer went wp from the firing party, and they rusted for ward, Colonel Conklin leading to ‘secure the door, Had | the great brute deliberately plane ed an ambus- cade itcould not have better suc receded. When the party were within a dozen fe scot the door the puma sprung through the sh attered portal into their midat, overthrowing set reral, doubtless injuring some. near the | hich = wi Almost on the her sls of the puma | came the black and spotted leopa: rd, followed by | the jaguar, the Atrican loness : and tiger. The | latter came forth with a slow anc | «tealthy tread. | Archambeau, one of the keepers, | 1ad the temerity | to try and lasso the beast, knowin a that there was | none more dangerous and bico dthirsty in the | whole collection, THE TIGER SAW THE O BxRCT | of the keeper, and without 4m yment’s warning sprung fifteen ‘eet into the air am {caught Archam- beau by the rightshoulder, The t' wo went down to- gether, the tiger on top. Inst mnt preparations | Were made to sive the poor 1¢ slow, when unior- tunately the rhinoceros came 1) ambering at a half | trot out of the entrance and ¢ irove the rescuing an tod from their purpose, He a Iso drove the uger | pefore him, but acthe same time planted ane | of his enormous feet on the * prostrate Archam- | beau and squeezed the brew jh from his body. ‘The storming party was tor the moment com- | pletely disorganized. The anim als were running in | various directions, and the a ttacking forces and the curious spectators were tle eing in every direc- tion, scaling rocks, climbing tr ees, falliug in their flight, and a case ts reported ¢ pf a citizen stabbed at this moment by an Italian over a quarrel as to | which should first uscend a tree, ‘tne wounded man, Calvin Mortey, of Fiatt# ash, L, L, is at Belle- vue Hospital, but cannot giv s the police any de- scription of THE MAN WHO STA RBED HIM. I mention this terrible inc ident from a host ot others to show how overwhe (ming was the fright and how blinding the stam pede. The lion had escaped the bullets of the firtr ye party in the front maddened to lurther desperation by them carecre 4 wildly through the Firth avenue entrance, and aiter by the Bengal tiger, a nt amber of demoralized Park policemen, who stillhac | a sentiment of duty, pursuing them with halloes, as if they were sheep, not sheep devonrers, . CONFUSION AND DI ISTRUCTION, From this point it has be en Jound extremely aifficult to gather anything like a coherent or complete stury of the deprec imtions of the uncaged beasts. Fromanumber of statements made to our reporters by eye-witn’ asses, many of these statements abounding in } satent impossibilities, but all of them given with a n apparent conviction of trathfulness, the followin g continuation of the story isgiven. The writer of the preceding on the pell-melt breaking forth: ‘of the animals ran to | the Seventy-fourth street ¢:ntrance and hurried down to the Windsor Hotel, whence he tele- graphed to the HERALD off ce {or assistance. THE CONTINUATION | )F DESTRUCTION. ‘The rhinoceros, after traur pling down the keepor, Archambeau, made direc) ay for the cage of the brown bear, which stood on the grass recently. ‘The ease with which he ov ‘erturned the structure well illustrated the vast muscular power of the brute. The vrown bear escaped with some bruises. The grizzly bear, ;on being knocked out oft his house, advanced to give ht, bus was powled over on the gras’ s three times in succea- sion. THE LE OPARD, after killing ® little co itd and mutilating sev- eral women Who strove t¢ «run belore him, made his Way ito the inclosure co irtaining the pelicans, the pea towl and ostrich and .<illed all betore bim. The terror among the stoeming party lasted long enough to give ample ti me to the escaped animals Ra Rerent havoc all thro agh the park and city be- es. THR JAGUAR had been forgotten at 0 real time, and, made des- perate by hunger, jumped over the tence sur- rounding tne tall ad gentie giraffes, and in less time than 1s takes to teil it had slaughtered one of the nobie but helpless animals. OVER ONE HUNDRED SHOTS were fired at the ri inoceros iu vain. His sides appeared to be cover ed with slabs of wrought fron. “Snoot him in tne eve’? was the general ery, but no one was lucky enough, as all were nervous with fright, to strike that particular organ. A long re aching crowbar, however, struck him tn a gensit ive spot under the Jaw, not with the effect of cl :cking bis headlong career, but only to drive kim _ onward to WORSE D 2&D3 THAN EVER, In the same halt 11 ot with which he issued from his quarters amd §‘faying like a snip at sea, he struck ovem to the cages near Filth avenue, where the herbivo/rous animals were stationed, The havoc made ‘Unis direction was frightiul All the cages tumbi destruction and co! Joined forces’ with Attack of the weakt © unimals, such as tne camel, the zebras, 'he ga¢ red bull, the guanaco and the llama was ipiy, irresieibie. The sacred bull was , Mid one of the imild-eyed zebras tho” ut pity. The other excuped into the Park and ran toward Eigntn avenue. reported to have } sadly bitten and kicked a num- ber ol darimg bos! 1 who endeavored to effect his capture, He ig st, JI ut large. ‘asion, the liberated elephant THE BIRDS, The destruction of the bird cages was marked by terrific sce vaming. The eugies fought | gallantly for th wir eyries, but nothing could withstand the united charge of tne ele- phant and rb tnoceros. It was late in the evening before ti 1e Organized force of the menag- erle subdued the former of these two powerful animals, and not before both nad destroyed sev- eral lives and ru! ned a vast deal of property. The ratnoceros, the ; arent o/ all the destruction, made away toward tly ; Mall when THR EL] PHANT HAD BEEN LASSORD by the bind leg, 4 ease log being tled to the end ofthe stout rop ® with which the leg was lariated soagtoimpede his progress, while other parties with ropes simi |any hampere4 the other legs, un- ul they were ab le to throw him on his side and effectually ‘hol sbie’ him go that he could not rise. | They were thea about to shoot him at point-blank Tange, when th @ strange sight was presented of the elephant’s keeper, with streaming eyes and outstrected ar ms, planting himself between the | Bee and co cked rifies of the augry crowd, who | jad seen the di saths and mutilations and the pros- trate beast, wi ose trampetings of deflance were | avill ringing or .the ear. The keeper would not move, and, wi uh many curses, the great brute’s life was saved, THE RHINOCEROS escaned, a8 wi >‘have said, toward the Mall. Here he attacked 4, party Of young girls, killing th |, 4 omle Thomas, and irighteuing the others terrivi ty, One of them, subject to heart disease, Ellen Schavert, has received such a ner- vous sock th at her death may be looked for at aoy moment. ‘The beast left the Park at one of the upper Eig shth avenue entrances, aud gored a horse at Niné stieth street, overthrowing the heavy Wagon to wh ich he was harnessed, and dislocating the snoulder of Isaac Varker, milkman, Who was driving. Is, this neighborhood he overthrew @ shanty om the rocks, wutch fell before bim like @ hr 118e of cards. The wretched inmates Were at sap per, and tne falling planks took fire. All the fami Jy escaped except a child in the cradie, which was ourited to acrisp. Continuing on nis career unt! ihe reached Eleventh avenue, he was followed by *a crowd of men and boys, who were evidently } maware of his ferocious nature. He must, too, have been nearly spent with his terri- ble efforts , but continued on toward the North River. A fortunate accident put an end to his career, ° ib was now very darg, and he was seen to Jail int: > @ sewer excavation on the Boulevard, fifteen fe stdeep, Had it been a week day, and at an eariie) : hour, he would, doubt, have ended is life in killing, by Jalling on some of the men at A 8 it was, he fell .nglorivusly, The Pi wk trom ecd to end is marked with in- : 1 in its artificial forests tue wild beasts pounce at any moment on the unwary pedestri an, THE LEOPARDS AND WOLVES made § b ort work of the deer, and all the blood for which (wey are responsible is noteven yet fully compu tid. The subsequent fight between THE LION AND TIGER, when they met on the open space at Filty-ninth street , ouside the Park wail, in the presence of & thous: and terrified spectators. was the great com- bat o] : the day. Ihe hon tore away at one bite hair the tiger's flanks, while the latter, with chare gtertstic ferocity, buried his teeth in the lion’r ; neck until the king of beasts howled with the k eenest anguish. Now i¢ was the lion under. neat oand the tiger ontop. The next moment posi! Jons were reversed, BLOOD COVERED THE AVENUE, and offin the distance the awestruck spectators loot sed on iM brewthless tear. Finally tie two sao guinary brutes rushed irum eaci other asa bull et (rom the ritte o; General Wingate, who came pre Saree the ground, whistied between their ear 8. ster Wallack took aim at the same mo- me patfrom behind the untintsned tron building on th) east side, and perforated the tiger to some sii ghtdegree. Many other gentlemen came rusn- in g to the scene in the meautime, anioug them es -Mavor Hall, Erastas Brooks, of the Ecpress ; M anton Marole and Mr, Bangs, of the World, who hi id been visiting Governor-elect Tilden, and were O 4 their way uptown ina carriage; Judge Daly, J adge J. R, Brady, General Artnur, Hugh Hastings a@ od Prosper Wetmore, But they were alla trifle D ervous [rom running, and the beasts escaped on { peir raid down town, where, as everybody knows ty this, they hag bioody and jeariul carnival. TRAGIC DEATH OF THE BROWN SEA LION. When the ponderous rhinoceros plunged shrough the sea lion's o the jatter was in an apparentiy proiound si Awakened by the startling Moise ground tim, and struck with verror at the appearance of his visitor, the poor seal uttered one long, plerc- ing howl, partly resembiing the shriek of a locomotive, and the next moment 3 tumbled into his tank and disappeared. rhinoceros, breaking down the whole structure, Was soon floundering in tne tank wiso, Then tt ‘Was the sea Liou, riven to “TRIPLE SHEET. to pieces, and, to add to the | ety bat for an unfortunate slip made by the Uc keeling —suddeoly fell with all his immense weight bis rostrate foe and killed him. the fight the roars of the sea lion were in cessant aud painiul to hear. it way unlike any other ery of bird, or beast, or fish, It was some- | tuning strange aod werd, and bad a half noman sound that struck the ear with a singular impres- sion. The little seal escaped by hiding under the water. of 8 rh e DEATH OF THE ANACONDA, | In the destruction of the vartous cages the ana- | couda was roused irom his \orpor, and pivoting | himseli upon bis tail made a spring at! the neck of the tall and beantiful virate that occupied the adjacent cage. Only a few boards separated the two. The long slender neck o! the giraffe bending over the par- tition proved a tempting mark for the anaconda. Yhe graceful neck was quickly bowed to th ground in the coils of the powerful constrictor. ‘the yiratte made but a feeble struggie and death speedily ended his sufferings, ‘shen i was the fl spectacle was seen of the anaconda seeking to swallow the body of hia victim. He had but commenced this disgusting task when he was observed by Dr..F. A. Thomas, of Eighty-third | street, who attacked tne reptile, armed: with a sabre, Who at one blow severed the great snaxe’s body and then retreated ta bat IN THE MONKEY HOUSE, When the elephant smashed the cages with his trunk and drove the monkeys into every hole and corner the scene Of disorder and noise was per- fectly indescribable. The monkeys screamed and laughed and lsugned avd screamed. ‘Two preen monkeys perched themselves on the elepnant’s back, but fora very short time. Over twenty monkeys escaped from the house and made off in various directions, Two o! them climbed into a carriage standing outside the Park on Futh avenue, Que was kilied by the laughing hyena, several were wouudea by the black wolves; but, considering the risks they ran and the famili arity they Made with many o/ the liberated beasts of prey, they escaped very well, THE NEWS OF THE PROCERDINGS is Dan Brenan, and he is a native of the Nineteents ward. Counsellor Speilissey distinguished himself by stooping @ causeless stam, in the Four veentu ward. THE PERRYBOAT CARNAGE, Perhaps the most depiorabie of ali the Incidents of the terrible evening was that which took place on the ferryboat of the Twenty-tnird street line, North Kiver, Several of the animals made their way down Fifth avenue, Amoug them was oue of large size (almost the only description bow ob- laivable), Jtis thought to have beea one of the tigers, out it# passage aiong West fwents-third 8. eet appears to have been unnoticed in the gene eral amazement. At any rate, just as the gat~ ke ut the twenty-third street ferry WAs Close jug ihe yates he saw a fierce animal bound past hin aod rush on to the ferryvoat, The bost was well loaded, Some horses attached to light | Wagons were seen to rear and show every sign of | terror, and then rush forward INTO THE RIVER, carrying thetr human ioads with them. Several people were mangled by the ferocious brute in @ Very few minutes, ‘Tne boat nad. just begua | moving as the beast leaped on board. Pilot saw the horses and wagons going overboard, the boat was not quite clear of tne dock. He mediately RUNG TO REVERSE THE ENGINES and put back, ‘To this providental circumstance must be attribute! the saving of so many lives, Numbers were seen to plunge overboard escape the beast, whieh at last sprung into the water alter a young man. ‘The wonderiul escape of Larry Jerome is an incident of breathless in- terest. Overvorne by the crowd, he was fol into the river, and although a heavily built maa, 1s @ splendid swimmer. He was seized around the neck by & desperaie man, Wiom he shook of with the greatest dificuity. Strikmg out for shore, he touched against a lemale who appeared to have given hersell upto deata. He piloted h | to the spiles near the dock, and both were rescu | by the fast gathering crowd. The tide was rani | swiit ebb, and it is feared most of the bodies nave | been carried out tosea. This 18 one of the cases in | which days must elapse before the Jull list of in the Park, and the terror excited throughout | fatalities is known. the city at the prospect of having a visit from the | THE HOSPITAL HORRORS. wild antmais at the domestic fire: drew an im- | mense number of sporting meu and Yorkvilie fast | seen, ‘The doctors were kept ousy | In Bellevue Hospital many touching sights were 3 dressing the boys and rowdtes in the direction ofthe menagerie, | reariul wounds, and the cries of the uniortunates There was dangerous sport enough for everybody | in tue accident ward Were most paimiul to hear. as far as hunting down the fugitives went. penetrated everywhere. | Victims—men, women and chiidren—was finally Killed at Castle Garden by a party of emigrants, | Battery Park, having leaped the rails, Although | followed ata safe distance by a large crowd, she Was allowed to remain iu this position. A PARTY OF SWeDISIC HUNTERS, | who had arrived in the Thuringia, on their way to | larms in Nebraska, undertook to kill the beast, ; had practised on. Ten in number, and armed | With rifles, they scattered themselves in a semi- | circlein pairs, and advanced, crawling on their | bellies, until within a few paces of the recambent | Noness. er head was turned toward Broadway, | but, suddenly suspecting danger, she arose aud shook the heart of the unlookers with her sound- ing roar. It was at this moment that | Jansen Bjornsen, the leader of the hunters, | blew his shrill whistle, and five rifle balis were | buried in the body of the lioness. She tell with a dull thad evidently dead, bat the five hunters Whose guns Were still charged rushed up and emptied their pieces into the prostrate carcass. ‘Tms was the signal ior adeafening cheer, The hunters were carried round on the sh ulders of the First warders, and the proprietor of the Stevens House ant Nicnolas Muller ueaded a sub- | scription list with $50each as a testimonial to these brave children of the Norseland jor tneir maiden service to the great Republic, It is an- nounced that Superintendent Webster, of Castle Garden, will receive sabscriptions, It is satd that neurly $500 ts already down On tne lists, sioner Lynch has pat his name down for $10, Whitelaw Reid subscribes $50, C. A Dana adds | $60 also. THE BENGAL TIGER having counted up a score of victims, surrendered his Itve to the trusty rifle of our aged Governor, Jonn A. Dix, who shot nim a3 he rounded Madixon avenue and Thirry-iourth street. This was ap ex tremely fortunate occurrence, The Governor, a splendid shot, was in town in the nick of time, ‘This gallant act wiil be reme:nbered oy tie citizens | of New York, although it is now two late to mark | that esteem at the bailot box. It may be men- tioned as a fortunate circumstance that a nunute atter the death o: the tiger Archbishop McCloskey’s | carriage drove wu A Irignt or injury to the horses | by the lerocious Geast might have ended the career | of the aged pregl la Hearty congratalations were exchanged between tne Governor and Archbishop, FRIGHT ON FIFTH AVENUE, walks oa Sunday afternoon 1s well known to all, and the effect uvon tue host o! elegantiy dressed romenaders when the brerkins loose of the yeasts was mide kauown was curious. When the beasts made thetr escape from the building mainly | devoted to the great carnivore a number of excited | people rusbed down Fifth avenue, shouting ag | they ran. it caused a general stampede ot the fashionabies, who ran in various directions down side streets and into the ' churches, which thus received iull congregations the rhinoceros, and the joint | loug before the hour of service. The Hon. kichard | }S@mbur deer, | Schetl, who was standing near the Brick Church on Murray Hill, and who at firet belteved the report of the bresking loose to be a cruel hoax, | told one of our reporters that tue rapidity with | which the avenue wae cieured beggars Geacription. The excited, shouting party SEEMED TO SWEEP TUR AVENUB before them. In ten mtnutes there wags pot a soul visible in either direction trom the Park to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. It was puzziing to think where they hud gone. Ir, Sche'l proceeded to state that te torned and walked up the avenue, but met no one for three-quarters of a mile. He felt then tally convinced 1¢ was a hoax. As he neared tue | Park, however, he heard a number of shots fired. He, in turn, became excited, and commenced |'running toward the Arsenal, | met by s party | BEARING A DEAD BODY, that of a youth, fear ully disfizured about the head and face. A terrifying roar was heard behind On his way he was | them, wnen the party lat the body tall and ran | | precipitately. Mr. Schell ran too, and jumped in among some shrubs of tne matn road. The incline leading to the Arsenal is uofintsued, { and up this road he saw some animul of the tiger species come with a light, switt movement, The beast was evidently iollowing the blood trail, tor | ne went straight up to the abandoned corpse, and , alter striking one paw upon the breast and touch- ing it with his head, as if smelling, he gave jorth a series of hurribie howls. “I teit my blood rao cold,” sald Mr. Schell, “but kept perfectly still, lest the brute should be attracted to ine from THE HORRID MEAL he was evidently about to commence. I soon heard a number of shouts and saw a party of citizens and Botee ak tore the animal, but unconscioas ol he, 1act, were running away | trom Ganger in their rear. { shouted to ; them, they suddenly halted and jooked back, Two of the party fired revolvers at the animal, woich, to their relief ond mine, uttered @ howi of anguish and rap, pursued | by men who themselves were running away | (rom the lion they said). I ran until I gained the | entrance to the Park and made dowa Fifty-nintn | trot down Fith avenue. I had not proceeded tar | when 1 saw # large object careering Madly toward | me. I recognized it as @ buifalo pull. Iturned to run back toward the Patk, when to my horror I observed an auimal ambiing toward Fourth avo- nue. rushed bs the stoop of one of the houses and tugged at the bell. I saw as Lturned that the buffalo and the bear had met, and that a fight was tn progress. I cannot teli which got the better. ‘The fignt was sburt, and I heard that the bear was seen to limp away. I got into the house, but was almost summarily ejected, although I made on utgent uppeal to be allowed to remain,” The aniinal first referrea to by Mr. Schell is, doubtless, the one that ENTERED THE CHURCH OF ST. THOMAS, | of which Dr. Mor; is pastor, at the corner oi West Futy-tuird street, causing sach a deplorable panic, with injuries to many. one of the wounded down Filth avenue to St. Luke’s Hospital, at Fifty-tourth street, was tracked by him. Just as the bearers neared tne corner a deep bass growl was heard behind them, aud los- ing their presence of mind, they ran down the avenue the aan Descrying tne church @ little ahead they hurried toward it and entered the edifice, with fright on every counte- nance. The sigot of the wounded mau Caused the | greatest consternation. Sutrieks were h on ail sides, The women grasped their protectors and the utmost confusion succeeded. Tue charch door must have been left open, for a minute afver the anunal (cougar, some say, pantier others) came steulthily, with his head aown to the blovd trail and growiltng gutturally. Mis presence ouce die covered, @ Irighttul scene ensucd, Men and wo- men rusted in all directions away from the beast, Who sprang upon the shoulders of an aged lagy, BURYING HIS FANGS IN HER NECK | and carrying her to the ground. In the haste to wet away over the seats many injuries were sus tained, Mrs. Catherine Ransom, of West Forty- | fth street, breaking her leg by falling de- | tween two pews. Some one ran to the Windsor Hotel for assistance, and one of the guests ran with & ‘loaded rite to the church, ‘ihe beast was in the middle atsi sitting crouched above the iorm of bis victim, when 4 tail, fair man, witu a rifle tn hanas, entered. Without a mo: 's hesitation he brought the weapon to ois shonider and fired. The beast tumbled over and the rifeman ran up | und strack him over the head, driving the hammer through the brate’s skull. When the aged victim was mined life was found to be extinct, although neck was in itself not of a very dangerous natur Up to this hour the re- mains have not been identified. An inquiry at the hotel as to the name of the rifleman elicited the single word, “RigBy |” In several parts of the city the greatest danger Yesnited from people firing rifles and pistois irom windows, There is no instabce reported of any of the animals having been hit, while it ts pelleved Many citizens weie struck by the missiles. One policeman, Uficer Lannigan, of the Seventh pre- gas was wounded in the i00t near Grand street y A SHOT du the chase aiter striped was taken by the crowd ior @ pi cowardly orute Was finaliy killed by u bartender, only with @ club, By Regrets: oo They | The Airican tones, | alter saturating herself in the blood of eighteen | | although bears were the only large animals they | Commis. | ‘The crowded condition of the Filth avenue side- | Street, as the animal was prossedieg at a limping | I saw it was @ brown or biack bear. I | A party carrying | je Was treated as a secs to perform a number of amputations instantly. One young girl is gaid to have died under tne Enile, Few of the wouuded were visited vy their jamilles | last night, but the ministers of the Gospel of all It was necessary was followed shortly | She lay down under ove of the great trees in tne | denominations took their places by the of the untortunates. ‘Ihe handsome face of Rev. | George H. Hepworth was seen bending over & moauing street Arab. Bishop Porter, Rev. Mr. Morgan Dix, Rev, Mr. Armita:re, of the Fifth @v@- nue Baptist church, and Fathers Farrelly and Mo- Glynn were seen moving among the suferers, min istering to tne souls of the sufering and the dying. The following 18 & partial list of the casualti@ss== LIST OF KILLED. —— Hyland. John Judge. Wiliam Meredith. Jacob Kuhne. Benjamin P, Steiner, Thomas Fagan. George Cross, John F. Colemaa Abel Garrett, P. D. Comstock. Fred. C. Gamble. George Hanley. James Hadley, Owen O'Reilly, Peter Ryan. Michael Murphy. Peter Kerr. Thomas B. Styles. | James Hewson. | Ellen Lalor and three children, Stephen Long. Mary Brady. | Fred McDonnell. | Alex. H. Henderson. Stephen brace. | Pedro Velasquez. William Mapes. Christopher Andersoa. Annie Thomas, | LIST OF WOUNDED. John Morrissey, very Jonn Connora, slightly. Mark Havelsteta, General Butler. dacob Wort, | Arexander O'Leary. Julia Denison, | James Maydon. Anne Cushman. | Michael Radferty, Saran Whtce, | George D. ancrott, Mary Ann Gough. Silas Hammeramith, Pat Byrnes, Julien D, Brown. George Seaver. Amos Hardy. Of the number actnally killed it will be imposste ble to teil for some days. Of those wounded no fuil list can be ascercamed. ‘The charge of the gavage beasts was the most unexampled im the history of cities, They tore througn the leading thoroughiares with all the itreedom they might have enjoyed in their native wide | LAST OF THE SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS. | 1rhinoceros, 1 American tapir. 1 zebra, 1 anaconda. | 6 American deer. 1 woodchuek. | 2 giraffes, 4 Syrian sheep, 1 American bison. 1 sacred bull. 1 white-haired poron- 2 American e: | _ pine. 1 two-toed slot | 1 prairie dog. 1 great Kangaroo, 1 sea lion, 1 alligator, | 2leopards, 2 water turkeys. | 1 grizzty bear. 4 pink-footed geese, | 1 brown bear, 2 pelicans. | 1 strined hyenas. 1 ocelot, \2 Rrowe Capuchin mon- va. | 1 vengal tiger. | 1 Chacma baboon, | 2 camets, 1 trumpeter swan, 1 clapper ratt. lred-breasted mergam ge ers 1 pied-bili grebe, 1 pine snake. 1 Derbian waslaby, 1 Dorcas gazelle, | 1 African Iton. 1 nvighan, 1 African lioness, 2 guanaco, ANIMALS AT LARGE. The following animals are at large in variow) | Parts of the Central Park and city, and, of course, | are extremely dangerous :—The cheetah, the manae tee, the Cape bulfaio, the panther (a most lero. cleus beast, supposed to nave killed the two | policemen near the Belvidiere tower and eaten ‘the goats whose skeletons were fond on the | Ramble), the opossum (uot dangerous), the wild | swine, the patsano (a vicions beast, supposed to be on the west side of town, in the netghoorhod of Manhattan Market, and credited with killing the | young laqy tound near Sir Waiter Seo , the mangabey, the puma lion (a@ vel nVage ; auimal) deatroved most of the deer In the northern | enclosure and bit a large piece out of the shoulder | of Henderson the policeman; supposed also to have killed the nursery girl discovered in the Care | Tousel. Three snakes escaped and are believed to be hid away in the grass and shrapbery near the Casino. More than a dozen monkeys are play- ; ing truant through the Park and are not to be | depended on when they become hungry, The black leopard, whose fight in the building with the Bengal tiger disabled him considerably, i@ limping sbout the upper end of the ‘k. | The Polar bear that killed the two keepers, | Ryan & Murphy, fs said to have been shot by Re» | corder Hackett near the upper reservoir. ere is a sharp look out for the black wolf. He eacaped into the city, but looks so much like a Dutchman’s dog he may evade detection until he has com mitted some lamentable tragedy. The — f prey Ss paradoxure and many otner beasts of pi whose names are not immediately available | scattered over the island. Five or six bald-head | eagles escaped and many valuabie tropical birda, | The prairie wolf is not to be jound, the suricate 18 also missing and no tidings have been received of | the brown coatimundi, | GENBRAL DURYRE, | by the excellent diaposition ne made of the police | force. gaved hundreds of children in the Met | of Tompkins square from being devoured. | the same precautions been taken on the west sid@ | of town the American buffalo and the brown Would never have accomplisned ao much {i | havoc. | NATIONAL GUARD PRECAUTIONS, | _ General Shaler deserves credit sino for ha orders promptly issued to turn out the Nation: Guard, as the danger from tne wild and savage ais at in, all the anim large a proved too much for tne lice. The scene at the Fifth avenue Hotel whem | the Malayan tapir that killed the two | Policemen burst in among the mob of gen | Standing in the portico can never be forgotten, John Morrissey escaped with a flesh woand. eral Butler, who bad come on in the morning, was fm, concession . Si Ganeret, Gumore, soe, a ceived @ bite in the calf of leg. jor | or the Mad, and Mr. Stone, of ti Sourmak | Commerce, assisted to calm J. Jones, the button | manufacturer, who was thrown nso & Raeos a by the appearance of the antinale. cretary Robeson id Alderman Vance were throwa | violently against a plie of bay Jerome pursucd the animal two blocks after it disappeared from the hutel, and made some ex cellent practice with a revolver but failed to brit the brute down. The Buffalo overtarned Roseberry’a carriage in frout of the aVOOrE, cont ning | subsequently ran into another carrt Moses Hanz, of Vorty-firat street, but wil doing any serious damage, It would be impoasibie at this late hour to de scribe the numberless scenes of dismay and die } eter, The hospitats are (ull of wounded. There + are fliteen bodies at the Morgue and several in the | Various precincts, A sentiment of horror per vades the community. THE GALLANT POLICE. It is now ttme to say that the police dererve the greatest credit ior tueir courage, if not for the sug cess in dealing with this unheard of danger Every where they are at the [rout, among = giain and mutilated they count heavily. Gel | Duryea’s order to clear the streets was a master stroke of policy. It gave the rapidly gathered of platoons work they could undertake wit! Jurther direction, while it gave the aq officers he despatched to the angies of the vhorongofares @ Chance to deal eMoctemtly with animais ranning @ muck aod witnout further dunger to citizen lie, There was only a re rted of a citizen shot by @ police bullet, and, ag ke unfortunate victim haG been warned to leave the streets, the ofticer cannot be blamed, THE MORAL OF THR WHOLE. Of course the entire oN given above is a pare fabrication. Not one word of it is true, Not @ singie act or incident descrived taken pluce, it 18 @ huge hoax, @ wild romance, or whatever other epithet of utter uutrustworthiness ous readeta may choose to apply to it. It is sim ply & fancy picture which crowded upon the mind of the writer a iew days while be was @ through the fron bare of tne cages of the wid it Park. Yet but periectly natur: is i 8 each of its horr sequences impressed themselves upon bi the guestion presented itself, How is New prepared 10 meet such @ catast ? How couid it Occur any day of the week? How much, let the citizens ponder, depends se the indisere tion of even one of the Keepers? A little uver. ant. « tritiog ont might lead to the act appening O! ai bent ni ‘from causes quite sion. widen Men have Ary anal