Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     More than 2,000 persons and four passenger trains on the Colorado Midland railroad were held in tunnel No. 6, two miles west of Manitou, by a fierce South American Jaguar. Before he was captured the animal clawed Joseph Bennett of Colorado Springs, cutting a severe gash across his right leg. Miss Delmont, a passenger on one of the trains, became frightened and in endeavoring to scale a high cliff fell a distance of twenty feet, breaking her left leg. The jaguar and a polar bear occupied two compartments in a large cage that was loaded upon a flat car of the train belonging to a circus. The cage was too high to enter the mouth of the tunnel and as the cage struck the tunnel its roof was torn off. The keeper threw on the air brakes, stopping the train. He threw rocks at the bear and fired blank cartridges at the jaguar to keep them from escaping. The animal crawled under the car and during efforts to drive it into another cage Bennett received his injuries. Finally the animal was driven into a small cage, but before the door could be closed the train started and the jaguar again leaped for liberty. It dashed through the tunnel, but upon emerging at the other end found itself in a narrow cut. After some efforts the animal was again captured and placed in his cage.