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Domestic News
June 5, 1883
Wheeling Register
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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A performing bear killed and partially devoured a child of Turkish travelers camped near Lancaster, in the presence of the horrified mother, who discovered the gruesome scene.
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A SICKENING SIGHT.
A Huge Black Bear Devours a Child In The Presence of Its Mother,
Charlotte, N. C., June 4.-For some time past three Turks have been traveling through this State with two performing bears. The men were accompanied by their families, and created much sympathy by their statement that they were persecuted officers of Arabi Pasha's army. They figured at the hanging of Robert Henderson, the Cabarrus county murderer, on Friday, and made a good sum from the crowd disappointed in seeing the execution. From Oxford they went to Lancaster, where their tour had Received a Sad Check,
While the Turks were camped near Lancaster the largest of the black bears killed and almost devoured one of the children. The Turkish women were not noticing the children, and it got too close to the bear, when the savage animal knocked its brains out with one blow of its huge paw, and then tore its flesh off by the mouthful. The mother, missing her child, called and received no answer, and in looking for it was horror stricken at the sight which met her eyes. Her cries of Alla, Alla brought her husband to the scene. The animal had eaten up nearly the entire body of the little one save the head and parts of the arms and legs which it was apparently preserving as choice morsels. When the parents came up the beast was crouched on the ground, dog fashion, and had a leg of the child between its paws, and the mother's ears were greeted by the sound of crunching bones. As the parents came up the smaller bear was fighting with the other in its endeavor to get a portion of the fragments of human flesh which were strewn around. The remains were got from the beasts with difficulty.
A Huge Black Bear Devours a Child In The Presence of Its Mother,
Charlotte, N. C., June 4.-For some time past three Turks have been traveling through this State with two performing bears. The men were accompanied by their families, and created much sympathy by their statement that they were persecuted officers of Arabi Pasha's army. They figured at the hanging of Robert Henderson, the Cabarrus county murderer, on Friday, and made a good sum from the crowd disappointed in seeing the execution. From Oxford they went to Lancaster, where their tour had Received a Sad Check,
While the Turks were camped near Lancaster the largest of the black bears killed and almost devoured one of the children. The Turkish women were not noticing the children, and it got too close to the bear, when the savage animal knocked its brains out with one blow of its huge paw, and then tore its flesh off by the mouthful. The mother, missing her child, called and received no answer, and in looking for it was horror stricken at the sight which met her eyes. Her cries of Alla, Alla brought her husband to the scene. The animal had eaten up nearly the entire body of the little one save the head and parts of the arms and legs which it was apparently preserving as choice morsels. When the parents came up the beast was crouched on the ground, dog fashion, and had a leg of the child between its paws, and the mother's ears were greeted by the sound of crunching bones. As the parents came up the smaller bear was fighting with the other in its endeavor to get a portion of the fragments of human flesh which were strewn around. The remains were got from the beasts with difficulty.
What sub-type of article is it?
Death Or Funeral
Accident
What keywords are associated?
Bear Attack
Child Devoured
Turkish Performers
Lancaster
Performing Bears
What entities or persons were involved?
Robert Henderson
Where did it happen?
Lancaster
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Lancaster
Key Persons
Robert Henderson
Outcome
child killed and partially devoured by bear; remains recovered with difficulty.
Event Details
While camped near Lancaster, a black performing bear killed a child by knocking out its brains with a paw and devouring most of the body, leaving head, parts of arms and legs; mother discovered the scene and cried out; husband arrived; smaller bear fought for fragments.