GUARD'S FIGHT WITH EAGLE.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12483, 9 March 1909, Page 1

GUARD'S FIGHT WITH EAGLE.

a The guard Lecourt, of the Cote d' fizur express, told an amazing story of i fight with an eagle. The train, s he »ajs, was travelling over 60 miles an wU/u l^?**/ F o«ntaines h§ -.aw through tire-look-out a great bird '| 10/ermg.over the train. _ I moment. 'Jater an eagle clashed against the side ,of the tram. : It smashed the glass. of the lookout and fell into the train. It straightway attacked the guard savagely with beak ;and claws, and a fierce right betwoen the man and bird followed. TW guard was badly scratched, but finally managed to seize the eagle round the neck. He kent it pris oner till the train stopped at Diio'u. ; where he left the express, taking 'the .eagle with him. Its .wings measured over six feet from tip to tin.