Eva E. Prince, 29, housewife, saved Florence Parker, 32; Elsie V. Pierce, 16, and four children, ages 5 to 7, from an enraged bull, Mason, Michigan, October 13, 1913. A bull ran toward the women and children as they emerged from a very dilapidated frame shack located in a field, and they ran into the shack and shut the door. The bull butted against the door, snorted and bellowed angrily, and pawed the ground. It ran to the opposite side of the building, the front, and broke glass in a window. There were holes through the walls of the shack, and the doors were very light. Mrs. Prince went out of the shack and around it to entice the bull to the rear, as the way of escape was from the front. When the bull saw her, she ran back to the door whence she had emerged and shut it just as the bull plunged against it with lowered head. She threw her weight against the door and tried to hold it shut, but the bull forced it partly open and thrust its head through the opening. Mrs. Prince had a broken shovel with a handle about two feet long in her hand, and she struck the bull on the head repeatedly with it while holding the door with one foot. In the meantime Mrs. Parker carried the children to a fence 40 feet from the front of the shack. Mrs. Parker lifted the children over the fence, and then she and Elsie climbed over it. When Mrs. Prince knew that the others had escaped, she ran through the building and escaped over the fence. The bull, which had become more enraged while fighting with Mrs. Prince, became confused in the shack and did not follow her. 12758-1165
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