Woman Rides A Wild Elk

WOMAN RIDES A WILD ELK.

Exciting Dash on Back of Frenzied Animal, Clinging to Its Antlers.

Miss Emma Kellogg of Routt county, Colo., had a most thrilling adventure a few days ago. While in the hills one day she came suddenly on an angry bull elk. She had leaned her gun against a tree, and before she could get it the elk was upon her.

She took refuge in a sapling and tried to hold the animal's antlers around it, but her strength was not sufficient, and the elk broke away. Miss Kellogg took advantage of a moment's respite to climb a tree and sat on the first limb. This angered the elk more than ever, and he gave the tree such a bump that Miss Kellogg fell off.

She would have been stamped to death by the animal's sharp hoofs had it not been that luckily she fell on the elk's back. Then, with great presence of mind, she grasped the antlers and held on for dear life.

The elk was not expecting a development of this kind, and it tore through the woods terror stricken, endeavoring to shake off its burden. Miss Kellogg, however, did not propose to be shaken, and she only clung the tighter.

Away they went, the crazed animal dashing through the trees with the velocity of an express train. Up hills and across valleys the animal sped,  jumping over the rocks with tremendous leaps that almost unseated the frightened rider.

Miss Kellogg was becoming weak from the terrible strain and felt that she must soon release her hold when an unexpected incident proved her deliverance. The elk had made violent efforts to dislodge the girl, and it was one of the animal's tricks to accomplish this which saved Miss Kellogg's life.

The elk darted through some thick brush where overhanging branches came low down in order to brush the rider off. But the terrified animal miscalculated about its antlers and got caught in the branches. It struggled, but could not get loose, and it was but the work of a moment for the intrepid mountain girl to kill the captive animal by cutting its throat with her hunting knife.