Party of Campers in the Alleghenies Kill Forty-Seven Rattlers.
Miss Bella Hope, the “rattlesnake belle of the Alleghenies,” with three young women companions and two young men, went berrying in the mountains near Belefonte, Pa., Monday.
At noon while eating luncheon they witnessed a desperate fight a few hundred feet distant between a wild cat and a rattlesnake.
After a few minutes of fighting the cat went at the snake with teeth and claws and literally tore it into shreds. A moment later from out of every crevice in the surrounding rocks other rattlers began to crawl, until the ground seems perfectly alive with them.
Two of the women fainted. Miss Hope killed the wild cat and with the young men killed all the snakes.
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