Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on June 23, 1905.
Fierce Combat Takes Place In Ohio Schoolhouse.
Boy finds five blacksnakes in water pail and summons help to dispatch them.
    Two women and a 10-year-old boy had a ferocious battle with five monster blacksnakes at the Smith Chapel school house near Logan, Ohio. The snakes were discovered by Willie Stone. Three were in the water bucket, protruding, completely filling the bucket. The lad, almost breathless with fright, apprised his mother and Mrs. C. V. Woodruff, an aunt, who proceeded to the school house, a short distance from the Stone home. Locking the door, they proceeded to do battle with the five serpents. The combat raged for almost an hour, the women succeeding in killing all the snakes. The snakes attemped several times to encircle the women, but were fought off with clubs, with which they were finally dispatched. The largest snake measured 8 feet 4 inchs.
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