Thirty Fall Twenty-five feet from Wrecked Cars.
Four are killed and the Rest Run Through Chicago Streets, Creating a Wild Panic.
    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.
    Two cattle cars of a stock train left the elevated tracks of the Chicago Junction railroad and hung suspended from the structure. The weight of the cattle forced out the end of the cars and the animals dropped twenty-five feet to a vacant lot. Four were killed and three climbed upon the structure of the South Side Elevated railroad, delaying traffic until they could be chased down. The others ran bellowing in every direction, spreading panic in their paths.
    A hurry call to the stock yards brought a score of cowboys to the scene, but it was an hour before they had rounded up all the runaways and turned them back toward the stockyards in a herd.
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