Vicious Dogs Attack
These two stories from 1898 describe efforts to defend against wild dogs which attacked animals in populated parts of Waco. The newspapers of this time are full of accounts of a variety of wild animals, including bobcats and wolves, coming to town to do the same thing, especially during winter months when food was scarce.
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Dallas Morning News
December 11, 1898
Great Battle with Dogs
Waco, Tex., Dec. 10 -- John Barr, an Englishman, had a battle with vagrant dogs that entered the premises on which the young Briton is employed and attacked the poultry. The curs were in a famishing condition. They crossed the snow-covered fields, coming from the timber and on the Brazos river, and made straight for the poultry pens. The place belongs to Mr. Bardon, a cotton exporter, who is absent at Houston, leaving Barr in charge.
A heavy revolver was on the place, but it would not go off and Mr. Barr made fight with a club, but was compelled to retreat. The wild dogs killed two pet poodles, tearing one to pieces and eating a portion of its flesh. Mr. Barr, by using sticks and stones as missles, drove the savage curs off, the only loss being the poodles. The curs withstood heavy pelting before they withdrew. The poultry flew into the trees and, finding their prey had escaped, the brutes went off growling fiercely as the stones and sticks came hurling against their bodies.
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Dallas Morning News
December 12, 1898
Wild Dog Slain
Waco, Tex., Dec. 11 -- The wild dog mentioned in to-day’s Dallas News reappeared to-day and was hunted down and slain. He was a hound of unusual size and gaunt as if poorly fed for a long time.
After the raid on Mrs. Bardon’s place, where he killed and partly ate a beautiful pet poodle, he attacked a turkey roost and tore up half a dozen fine bronze gobblers and hens. Next he entered Mr. Pardoe’s irrigated garden and there he was surrounded by gunners and shot to death.
The savage brute was recognized as an English hound brought here by a show company two years ago. After escaping he entered upon a vagabond life and has several times destroyed fowls, pigs and calves. There is much rejoicing in South Waco, where women and children were kept in terror by the fierce wild dog.
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Dallas Morning News
December 11, 1898
Great Battle with Dogs
Waco, Tex., Dec. 10 -- John Barr, an Englishman, had a battle with vagrant dogs that entered the premises on which the young Briton is employed and attacked the poultry. The curs were in a famishing condition. They crossed the snow-covered fields, coming from the timber and on the Brazos river, and made straight for the poultry pens. The place belongs to Mr. Bardon, a cotton exporter, who is absent at Houston, leaving Barr in charge.
A heavy revolver was on the place, but it would not go off and Mr. Barr made fight with a club, but was compelled to retreat. The wild dogs killed two pet poodles, tearing one to pieces and eating a portion of its flesh. Mr. Barr, by using sticks and stones as missles, drove the savage curs off, the only loss being the poodles. The curs withstood heavy pelting before they withdrew. The poultry flew into the trees and, finding their prey had escaped, the brutes went off growling fiercely as the stones and sticks came hurling against their bodies.
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Dallas Morning News
December 12, 1898
Wild Dog Slain
Waco, Tex., Dec. 11 -- The wild dog mentioned in to-day’s Dallas News reappeared to-day and was hunted down and slain. He was a hound of unusual size and gaunt as if poorly fed for a long time.
After the raid on Mrs. Bardon’s place, where he killed and partly ate a beautiful pet poodle, he attacked a turkey roost and tore up half a dozen fine bronze gobblers and hens. Next he entered Mr. Pardoe’s irrigated garden and there he was surrounded by gunners and shot to death.
The savage brute was recognized as an English hound brought here by a show company two years ago. After escaping he entered upon a vagabond life and has several times destroyed fowls, pigs and calves. There is much rejoicing in South Waco, where women and children were kept in terror by the fierce wild dog.
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