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The fire department said an assistant chief was eating lunch at the Circle E Diner when he witnessed the cow fleeing from the back of a passing cattle trailer.
Authorities and local ranchers pursued the 800-pound cow until it escaped into the Delaware River.
The department said the cow was in the water for about an hour until its owner was able to get a lasso around it and the bovine was escorted to shore.
The cow was not injured.