Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1895 — FEW ANIMALS BURNED. [ARTICLE]

FEW ANIMALS BURNED.

Mont of Them Enoaped Before the Flnme* Overtook Them. Immense numbers of wild animals andgamo were driven by the late Western tires from the burned districts to the vicinity of the towns and when tho hunting season opens it is believed it will bo the most profitable ever seen. A gentleman living in tho burned region declares that there have l>een very few wild animals burned, basing his statement on knowledge of the habits of deer, elk, moose, and bear. He says that over a week before tho tire broke out there was a decided movement on the part of all sorts of big game. Ho saw half a dozen black bear in one morning, all trotting qlong in the same methodical sort of way. Deer were all moving out, he says, arid a dozen could be seen to cross the head of the lake in an hour if a close watch was kept. “All these wild animals have a sharp instinct for Impending danger," said he. “An old woodsman or hunter will begin to hustle for cover himself when \o sees birds and beasts alike moving Sn the same direction. There have been several forest fires of greater or loss severity since I have had to do with the country between Tower and the Canadian lino, and each time I have noted that full warning was given of a coming disaster by the behavior of the wild animals in the forest. They know bettor than any human being when there is trouble coming, and you'll see them begin to dig for safety a full week bofoie a fire sweeps across the woods.”