Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1877 — A Harrow Escape. [ARTICLE]

A Harrow Escape.

Bill Hanson, better known as “Frontier Bill," while pursuing a herd of mustangs near Hat Creek, July 9, was thrown from bis horse and knocked senseless, in which state he lay for several hours. When he recovered, his horse was gone and his wounds pained him so badly that he could not walk. He managed, with great difficulty,'to crawl on his hands to a pool of wuter, some fifty rods from the place where he fell. He remained there during the next day and night without a mouthful to eat, and, the water of the pool having given out, he started out on his hands and knees in search of. more. About 12 o’clock on the second day, he says he was so hungry, thirsty, lame and tired that he Could go nb further, and crawled under a tree and stretched himself out to die. While lying thus, bordering on the insensible, he heard the leaves shake near him and wearily turned, his head iu the direction of the noise. To his terror and astonishment he espied a large rattlesnake reaching for hiih. The sight of the venomous reptile banished hunger, thirst and pain for the moment, and he raised on his elbow and endeavored to scare the scaly thing away. The snake struck sthim twice, and then glided away. This adventure roused him somewhat, and be made another cndeavoi to reach water. Finally, after much pain and suffering, he crawled into toe Cheyenne road, and could go no further. Next morning a ranchman located at Hat Creek found him there, face^toto the ranch and cared for.. —Jieadwood Champion. _ i —A farmer named Reuben White, while cutting oats in a field near Washington Court-House, near Dayton, Ohio, cut through a nest of bees. Hi® horses, maddened by the sting® of the Insects, threw him from bis seat before th« «ckle. He was so baJly mangled that ho died in a few minutes. _ Bonnets are smaller than at the beginning of. the season. ’