TRAGIC DEATH OF A DIANA.
But a short time since the New York Sun published an account of the killing of two black hears by Miss Lottie Merrill, of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, a young lady eighteen years of age. Since then Miss Merrill has met a most tragic death. It appears that she had on the day of her death killed a fine buck, which she had dragged home in the snow. Six hungry bears, attracted by the smell of the blood, had fallowed the trail to Miss Merrill’s cabin, and it is piesutried attacked her after devouring the carcase of the deer. The girl is credited with having made an heroic defence, as she had evidently killed two of the bears before being overpowered. The carcase of one bear is stated to have fallen against the cabin door on the inside, imprisoning them all, when the cabin took dire, destroying both the girl and her assailants. Within the cabin was found one of her hunting boots, her foot still lemaining in it, her bent hunting knife, and the antlers of her last deer. Over 300 persons attended her funeral.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1498, 16 July 1881, Page 2
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