Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1911 — Bird Chokes a Horse. [ARTICLE]

Bird Chokes a Horse.

While in pasture at Seymour, Conn.. a horse owned by Oeorge Miller, a farmer here, was choked to death by a swallow. The bird, in blind flight, swept into the animal’s mouth, momentarily opened for an apple on an overhanging branch. The horse tore frantically about for several minutes, vaulted a fence, and was dead when reached by William Owens, a farmhand, who witnessed the Incident. The bird, also dead, was found weaged in the horse’s windpipe.