GORED BY BULL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21618, 10 October 1933, Page 12

GORED BY BULL

MAN CRITICALLY INJURED PINNED TO THE GROUND RESCUED BY BROTHER Mr. Harry Samways, aged 36, was attacked and critically injured by a bull on his dairy farm at Sylvania, near Sydney, recently. The infuriated animal bore him to the ground and ripped his abdomen with its horns. Mr. Samways 1 brother drove the bull away with a largo piece of timber. The bull, a Jersey, about three years old, had been reared by the Samways family. They had treated it as a pet. They had no hesitation in approaching it and leading it about. On the occasion in question it was loose in a yard and Mr. Samways went up to it with a collar, intending to tie it up to its chain.

When Mr. Samways was close to the animal it rushed at him. At first he was not alarmed by the rush, thinking that the animal was in a playful mood. The bull continued its rush, and, striking Mr. Samways with its head, knocked him to the ground. Now alarmed, he sprang to his feet and tried to reach the fence, but the bull, which had become infuriated, charged him again. This time Mr. Samways fell at the bottom of a tree, and before he could scramble to his feet the bull charged at him with head down, pinned him to the ground with its horns, and began to bore him in the abdomen. His cries were heard by Mr. Bert. Samways, his brother, who was at the dairy. He ran to the yard, and when he saw his brother's plight seized a thick piece of timber and rushed to his assistance. Mr. Bert Samways struck the animal repeatedly over the' head with the piece of timber. Although the blows were delivered with all his force, the animal would not cease its attack. By this time it had ripped open Harry Samways' abdomen with its horns, and had injured other parts of his body. Bert Samways continued his attack until ho dazed the bull, which finally gave up the attack, and backed sullenly away. Mr. Harry Samways, who was still conscious, rolled underneath the fence out of harm's way. His brother joined him and a number of passers-by gathered. A doctor was summoned. He treated Mr. Samways and had him conveyed to a hospital, where he was admitted in a critical condition.