THE HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKIAN — JULY 1, 1911
Colorado Rancher Has Exciting Experience with Vicious Animals.
Tie Siding, Wyo.—Chased by a pact of hungry, vicious wolves down through Cedar canyon, and saved by the presence of a homesteader with a good team of horses, was the experience of Al Hinton, a rancher living just across the state line in Colorado. Hilton’s arms, legs and body bear the marks of the animals’ fangs, and he is confined to his bed under the care of a surgeon.
Hilton was out searching for a bunch of cattle which had strayed into the mountains. He carried a double-barreled shotgun, but had only one round of ammunition.
“Late In the afternoon,” he says, “I gave up and turned back. I had gone but a short distance when I heard the howling of wolves. I hurried through the underbrush, but the pack gained on me. I turned and fired, when they came in sight, and killed the leader. But this did not stop them, and after a sprint of another 100 yards or so I fired again, killing two of the beasts.
“This stopped them for a few minutes. I don’t know whether or not they are the dead ones, but it was only a few minutes until they were after me again.
“Once they got so close that I brained one wolf with the club end of my gun.
“I was almost exhausted when I reached the end of the canyon and out into the prairie. And there, a short distance away, was a man in a buggy drawn by two horses. I yelled. He waited. I jumped in just as the wolf pack broke from the woods.
