Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — Battle With a Bear. [ARTICLE]

Battle With a Bear.

Grant Earhart, who lives on Tsiltcoos Lake, near Florence, Or., came near being killed by a bear while out hunting three or four days ago. As he was crawling through the brush, on his hands and knees he came face to face with the bear. Mr. Earhart poked his gun at the brute and quickly fired three shots, but it did not stop bruin. Earhart thrust the muzzle of his gun into the boar’s mouth, but the gun was not loaded, and the bear, hurling the gun aside with his powerful paw, attacked Mr. Earhart. Earhart threw up his arm and drew his dirk knife. The bear struck the thrown up arm, breaking it in several places, and then struck him several times about the shoulders, neck and head, and tore the scalp off the back part of Mr. Earhart’s head with one terrible sweep of his clawed foot. Just here his noble trained dogs rushed up and nounced upon the bear, which turned to fight them, and Mr. Earhart escaped. The bear died from its wounds while struggling with the dogs.