Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-10-18
HOW Yale 'sScienttsts, Killed n Grizzly
ReBr,

A letter from the Marsh expedition
published in the Desert Nea1s of Salt
Lake City gives an account of the fight
the Yale boys had with grizzly:
Early dawn was just rendering things
material indistinctly visible on the morn
ing of Saturday, August %, as the little
hunting party were started from their
warm rolls of blankets, as they slept, In-
dian fashion, with their feet towards the
fire, by the rapid shooting, sounding
from the direction Chening and Dewing
had taken earlier in the morning to stalk
deer near the Little Mountain Lake, Sam
Smith, the guide, was the first to wake
up to the situation. He remarked in a
cool, mountain style-"The boys must
have corralled the herd of elk; let us 90
and see the fun" With feverish has,e
the party rallied forth to the scene of act
ion, some with one shoe on, some with
none, hatless and coatless, but all pre-
pared for general massacre, when sud
denly Cheney appeared reckiessly smash
ing through the bushes, waving a pistol
in one hand and the double-barrelled
shotgun, which was to have killed the
deer in the close underwood, in the
other. He told us, in broken accents, as
soon as his wind would let him, that in
going through dense willow thicket
they had Unexpectedly come right on
an immense grizzly, eating wild berries,
and that on the impulse of the moment
he had given it one load of buck-shot
right in the nose, and Dewing rifle bull
let in the hip. The bear, with a terrible
growl, went for them. The place being
very miry, they kept their distance, for
how long they did not know, for on
looking round four or five minutes be-
fore seeing us, neither Dewlng nor the
bear was in sight, and we had intercept
ed him in looking for them. With many
misgivings and much more caution the
party continued the hunt, but under
Sans directions spread out like scouts,
SOFAS to cover the whole willow thicket
from the edge of the lake to the pine for
est beyond. After short march III this
fashion "hallo! there he is," came from
lluntington; and there, sure enough, i'll
small cottonwood tree, was Dewing.
being rocked to and fro as if several hur-
ricanes were after him at once, and at
the same time, with futile zeal attempt
ing to aim his revolver at the bear hid
den from us in the bushes below. Hunt
ington advanced rapidly to a little glade,
where fair shot at the bear could be
had, and going down on one knee took
good and deliberate aim, and firing,
hit il in the shoulder. I he bear let 90
the tree, which was most fortunate, as
Dewing, exhausted, must have fallen in
another moment, stopped an instant, and
seeing Huntington, whom he had already
smelt, the wind being favorable, rushed
towards him. Huntington, with perfect
coolness, fired again, but without effect,
and seeing the danger OF waiting any
longer, ran to the lake margin, where
there were no bushes. But the bear gain
ed rapidly on him, and when he reached
the open ground TO the horror of all the
bear was only few feet behind, and
seemed about to, strike and tear him at
every step, ( III Il, h.
| AT that moment Warning, hidden in
the bushes, fired three times with his
Winchester, the third shot taking effect.
The bear tumbled, and Huntingdon
Jumped into the lake up to his neck.
The bear rising, one eye blinded by
Cheney's shot, and the other with rage,
did not see him. Meantime, Wicks, who
had remained behind to saddle his horse,
so as to ride him into the supposed elk
herd, coming at full gallop through the
bushes, rode within twenty or thirty feet
of the grizzly, when his horse seeing it,
stopped with jerk, trembling all over.
Wicks fired, apparently with effect, and
had Just drawn another bead when the
bear, making a rush towards him, the
horse reared and threw up his head,
knocking the gun out of Wick's hand
and then gave three fearful bucks. But
Wicks, though thrown clear off the sad
die on the horses back, kept on unit
late that night. Oakes, Kinney and San
were now all within fifty feet of tn,
grizzly, which seemed dazed, and stood
looking with an uncertain air towards
them. Oakes having the least under
wood between himself and the bear, an.
having therefore the best shot, took
good aim and fired. The grizzly stag
gered forward aud fell into clump q
bushes in the morass. ''Dead, by thnn
der!' yelled Sam, who with kinney
rushed forward to give him q sort oi
con-, de grace. But when within about
ten fest Of sshe grizzly their courss wa