Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — A Remarkable Dog. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Dog.

The following peculiar incident istold by a Baltimore man as occuring to his fox terrier: “ One day, whilethe cellar door was open, the dog descended in search of rats, at about 9' o’clock. At 9.80 the dog was searched for and thought lost. No further notice was taken in the matter until the next morning at 11 o’clock, when I was attracted by a dog yelling. After a careful search, in the cellar, which revealed only a pile of sand by the wall, I noticed the dog’s nose protruding through an inch board at the top window of tho cellar looking into the yard. I went immediately upstairs and removed five bricks from the pavement and pulled the dog out. After a careful inspection I discovered he had dug under the foundation of the house in the sand, which had caved in. on him. Finding no other means of escape he dug up to the surface, a distance of six feet, and on arriving at the brick surface, which had recently been paved, dug toward the window, a distance of three feet, and had nearly eaten through the board in his efforts to free himself. He was nearly exhausted when found, having been twenty-six hours under ground. One eye was entirely closed from sand, the other nearly so..”— [Detroit Free Press.