Cincinnati Mourners Get Into a Cattle Stampede.
While the funeral procession which was taking the remains of John Mulvihill to the grave was passing Sycamore and Church streets, Cincinnati, O., the other morning a drove of steers passed. Several animals got into a fierce fight and ran into the carriages. One carriage contained Policeman John Connor and ex-Alderman Richard Ennis. Both were thrown to the street and severely injured. The cattle lunged at one another and then crashed against the carriage in which the Mulvihill family was seated, breaking the carriage door. The members of the family jumped from the carriage and ran into a house. Men pounded the brutes on the head with clubs and stones, but were unable to separate them. They ran against the hearse and almost upended it. All the mourners and people on the streets were panic-stricken and several of them had narrow escapes from being trampled to death. A large number of men then made a rush on the animals, which were finally driven away. The mourners reentered their carriages and the procession was resumed.
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