Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1901 — BATTLE WITH PYTHONS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BATTLE WITH PYTHONS.

Reckless Man’s Desperate Easeaatst With Two Hife Reptiles. There ia a snake keeper is the Philadelphia soo who won’t do it again. Ha tried to separate two large pythons which were fighting for the remains of a half devoured chicken and suffered the proverbial fate of the peacemaker. When pythona fight, it la to the death, and the weaker of these two was bound

to be a dead snake in a few minute* I they were not separated. The keepl did not pause. He threw open the doom jumped in and was soon using all hi* strength in desperate efforts to tear then apart. The crowd surged np to the glass cage, greatly excited. j , After a struggle he seemed to »urJ ceed. The snakes slowly unwound, buJ before be was able to get himself cieal of them and escape they had twine! about him. I Other keepers, attracted by the <• J citement, arrived in the snakehouae «J pushed through the crowd to the cartl man. Three of them jumped in and befl the big snakes until they freed the caM tive. The victim was badly bruiaod, jfl otherwise not injured.

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