William Logan

William Logan, 45, stonecutter, saved Charles M. Starnes, 26, farm foreman, from an enraged bull, Columbia, South Carolina, June 11, 1914. A bull weighing about 1,100 pounds attacked Starnes and knocked him to the ground against a barn and then attempted to gore him with its short horns. Logan ran close to the bull and threw a small block of marble against its forehead and drove it away from Starnes, then he followed it and struck it across the hips several times with a club. The bull turned and attacked him, knocking him to the ground. Logan grasped a ring in the bull’s nose. Starnes ran into the barn, got a pitchfork, ran to the bull, and jabbed the tines of the fork into its neck, but this had no effect on the bull. Another man brought a gun, and Starnes shot the bull after it had been lunging at Logan for about five minutes. Logan released his hold on the ring, and the bull walked away. Logan was unable to rise from the ground. The back of his head was cut, and his body was bruised, and two of his ribs were fractured. He was disabled two weeks.