Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-08-13
From the Detroit Free Press, Of July slss.
A BOY EATEN UP BY A BEAR AT DE.
TR0IT.


We have succeeded with some difficulty in learr
ing the particulars Of shocking occurrence Whicl
took place on the Hamtramck marshes on las
Tuesday, 10 which boy, eleven years old, wa
actually eaten up alive by BEAR within sight o
the city. The circumstances Of the case are a
follows:
A man named Joseph Radsmaeher, German
living on Macomb street between Rivsrd and Rus
sell, went out oa Tuesday morning, in company
with little brother, to pick raspbsrries. They
carried their dinners With them, and went some
five or six miles out before commencing Their
days work. Rademacher deposited bis dinner
basket and coat on the ground, and employed
himself for some time in picking berries, when,
bis attention being attracted BY noise be looked
arOuLd, aud, to his intense establishment, saw {
large bear, accompanied by three cubs, engaged
in devOuring bis dinner. 1t was but the WORK
of moment to drop bis basket Of berries, and
hurry, with bis young brother, away from the spot.
He saw two boys not far from him when he left
the spot, but said nothing to them. Before him
self and brother had got a safe distance, they
heard terrible screams in the direction they had
left, which only served to accelerate their pace,
and place greater distance between them and
danger. They were soon overtaken by one Of
the boys, who came rushing after them in be-
Wilderment of fright, screaming that the bear
was eating up his brother. Rademacher received
this intelligence in utter dismay, and took to his
heels with a will, followed BY the boys, and de-
serting the sufferer to bis fate,
The cowardly race soon brought them to the
city, when they spread the alarm, and large
party was quickly formed for the rescue, which
proceeded to the scene ofthe disaster accompanied
by Rademacher and the father Of the unfortunate
boy. A long search resulted in finding the re
mains of the boy, the bear having eaten up about
half of the corps and buried the rest for fu-
lure meal Remnants of his clothes were found
scattered around, together with Rademacher's coat
torn to pieces. A general hunt was commenced
with view of finding the bear, which hes been
continued up to the present time without success.
The boy was Irish or German, we are not certain
which. His name also we have been unable to
learn, but shall ascertain it to day. His brother,
boy of thirteen, stated that they almost stumbled
over the bear before they saw him at all, when
he suddenly turned with savage grOwl and seized
the one who was nearest A word Of warning
from Rademacher, when he commenced his Aigbt,
would have saved the boy, but be was too fright
ened to do anything but run.
The bear wfs large aud powerful one, and
must have been excited to great hunger to COM
NIT so cold deed. The contemplation of such
an occurrence, happening almost within the limits
of city of 10000 inhabitants, is sickeniug and
terrible. Wild bears have become a rarity in
most parts of the State, yet we are visited in the
very metropolis by one that perpetrates a deed
that belongs to the early annals of our history
It is to be hoped that such visits will be rare in
future.