Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, March 4, 1912
Thirty Fall Twenty-five feet from Wrecked Cars. Four are killed and the Rest Run Through Chicago Streets, Creating a Wild Panic. Â Â Â Â Chicago, March 4-Thirty head of maddened cattle, freed from cars in a train wreck, stampeded at East Forty-first street and Cottage Grove avenue and terrorized the neighborhood for blocks in every direction. Â Â Â Â […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, August 26, 1825
    Russia,-On the 5th of April, two women, walking at Riga, in a solitary part of the city, were torn to pieces by a pack of dogs which had no master. By an official account of the devastation committed by wolves, in the government of Livonia, in 1823, it appears that they devoured 1841 horses, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 6, 1886
    A letter from D. N. Whipple, Gettysburg, Kan., states that the recent storms in the western part of Kansas have been very severe on the cattle and sheep in the ranges, and the losses have run from 10 to 125 head on small herds of cattle, and as high as 1000 out of 1500 […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 15, 1895
    The largest farm in this country and probably in the world is in the southwestern part of Louisiana. Its area is 100 miles north and south and twenty-five miles east and west. It was purchased in 1883 by a syndicate of northern capitalists by whom it is still operated. At the time of its […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 12, 1873
    A train loaded with stock reached Pittsburg the other day when it was discovered that nearly the entire cargo were smothered. 1,200 hogs and 200 cattle were lost.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 12, 1867
    These immense yards, which were incorporated in 1865, and opened to the public for business January 1, 1866, are now in full operation, and is the largest livestock market in the world. We give the following summary of their size and cost of construction, which will be valuable for reference:     Amount of land owned […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, November 13, 1922
    Two carloads of cattle bound for the stock yards were burned to death or shot to end their sufferings following a train wreck at Cary, Ill., thirty miles from Chicago, Sunday night. Two men were slightly injured.     A milk train on the Northwestern railroad, running ten miles an hour, struck the stock train, […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 30, 1886
    Fort Elliott, Tex., Jan. 28.-It is estimated that fully 15,000 head of cattle lie dead on the prairie within a radius of seventy-five miles of this place. The prairie dogs are nearly all dead. However, not more than 1 percent of the native cattle have died from cold. Several persons were badly frozen. Dan […]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 7, 1899
    In the great pastures along the South Canadian River in Cleveland and Pottawatomie Counties, Oklahoma, and across the line in the Chickasaw nation, flies are swarming on the cattle as never before known. dead cattle are found daily in every herd.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 5, 1898
J. McKeegan’s famous bunch of shorthorned cattle, numbering 300 head, was pasturing in the reservation near Bancroft, Neb., on a high bluff overlooking the Missouri river. The cattle were suddenly attacked by several swarms of wild bees. In their terror and pain the whole herd jumped over the bluffs into the river and were either […]