Some of you might remember the wolf posts I did a while ago that taught us all to avoid hungry wolves at all costs, especially if you are a bridal party or in a train.
Zeehan and Dundas Herald 25 Feb 1922 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84517526
Well, this time the wolves aren’t attacking a party of people in sleds or a train crew clearing snow. This lot seems desperate enough to have attacked a moving train.
When the wolves swarmed over the engine and coaches the passengers barricaded themselves in and defended themselves with guns, the driver putting on speed to make an escape.
Clearly this group of survivors were a little more chivalrous than the wedding party from this previous post.
Of the over 100 people who were attacked in 1911 only two survived and had done so by sacrificing the rest of the people one by one as they fled.
The final details of this 1922 tale from South Slavia are a little unpleasant though, aren’t they?
“The train put on speed, running over and killing many wolves, and reached Agram spattered with blood and wolves flesh.”
Ick. I wouldn’t have wanted to be the one responsible for cleaning that up in time for the next run…
Ew! Well at least the wolves didn’t eat anyone this time.
Imagine that horrifying sight rolling into the station. It would have been like something out of a horror movie….
I would rather have been on that train than in the sacrificial wedding party though, that’s for sure!
Mmmm…. I’m imagining something like the snails in my garden…only on a much, much larger scale!
Crikey! You must have some pretty determined snails! 🙂
You have no idea. 😦 They are EVERYWHERE. I used to try and avoid them but now I just crunch without looking. 😦
Actually, now you say it over the weekend I noticed some frighteningly large ones in our garden too. I commented to the kids that they were out during the day because they were so big they weren’t scared of the birds!
I suspect even the birds are sick of them.
Yikes!
Just the title of this post stopped me in my tracks. Because many people in NYC call subways “trains” (they really are trains, but the word train is often relegated to the commuter lines that bring people in from outside the city). I had this horrific image of subway tunnels with packs of wolves. OMG.
Now that’s a scary image!!!
It is a scary thought. I expect that after all the troubles you New Yorkers have suffered recently the thought of wolves in the subway wasn’t too hard to imagine 😦
I bet our current day trains would be far more wolf resistant than those from 1922 though!
I also think New Yorker’s might be more wolf-resistant that the crowd on the train in 1922. LOL… a tough crowd.
The passengers from 1922 defended themselves with pistols and rifles which makes me wonder what kind of trouble they were already expecting….
Movies and tv cause me to believe that a NY crowd would be just as well armed but probably far grumpier that their trip was going to be delayed! 😉
Nope! Very few guns in NYC. Really — the movies lie. First of all they are very hard to buy here (strict laws) most that are here were purchased in other states and brought in.
I was just imagining a few animal lovers talking to the wolves like a dog/wolf whisperer and the rest of the subway car being JOE COOL about it. New Yorker’s don’t like to admit to being phased unless they are the ones doing the ranting. I can even picture an angry woman yelling at the wolf until the animal backed down.
Oh no! You mean what I see on the screen is not real!! *tinkling noise as illusions shatter* 😉
I can imagine people just flatly refusing to have their daily subway routine interrupted with any form of running or screaming, those wolves can just get out of their face and go on their way and nobody has to get hurt 😉
LOL… I like that.
Maybe it is a good monster story, werewolf in the subway, with the twist that nobody takes him seriously! 🙂
Wolves attacking trains is part of the story in the Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken.