An Ohio safari

By all accounts, what hap­pened Tues­day night and Wednes­day in Musk­ingum County was the largest exotic ani­mal escape in Amer­i­can his­tory. Some 56 ani­mals, most of them large cats, bears and wolves, escaped from a pri­vate farm near Zanesville shortly before dark on Tues­day when their owner released them from their cages, cut the cage wires to pre­vent the cages from being reclosed and then com­mit­ted suicide.