Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1878 — Adventure With a Snake. [ARTICLE]

Adventure With a Snake.

On Monday of last week, while a party of persons were gathering berries on Bear run, in Pike township, Clearfield county, Mrs. John Hegarty, who resides near Curwensville, had an adventure with a rattlesnake which will not soon be effaced from her memory. She was standing on a clear spot at the foot of slight rise of ground, and when her attention was attracted by a buzzing noise she thought it was an inject of some kind and never thought of a rattlesnake until the noise among the bushes caused her to look toward the high ground near her, which she did just in time to see an immense rattlesnake flying toward her face. She quickly threw her head to one side, and it shot over her shoulder, striking its loathsome body against her cheek. A

■ scream from her attracted the attention of her husband near by, who ran up and pulled her out of the way just as the snake had coiled itself for another spring. He then killed the snake, ■which was a large one, sporting ten Titles. Mrs. ‘Hegarty suffered considerabfy from fright, but her escape from a terrible death was very narrow.—Altoona (Pa.) Sun.