Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — Ice-Coated Swans Caught. [ARTICLE]

Ice-Coated Swans Caught.

During a recent sovere rain and sloot storrn in tho vicinity of Millport, Columbiana County, a Hook of swutis were soon to swerve in their aerial flight, breuk ranks, and, after vain attempts to pursue their eourso, drop ono by one to the earth below. A farmer who had been an eyewitness to tho strange frouk and on whose farm tho fowls had settled succeeded after a hard chase in capturing a number of the flock alive. It was then discovered that the swans were completely enveloped in a thick oouting of ice, the weight of which had gradually sappod their strength and forced them to tho earth. The fowls captured are said to be very fine specimens, nono of which measure less than six feet from tip to tip.—[Chicago Tribune.