Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-01-07
Two Amazons.
A BEAR KILLED BY TWO WOMEN AFTER


Two Amazons.
BEAR KILLED BY TWO WOMEN AFTER
A SAVAGE FIGHT.
About year ago a man named Jonas
Butler went into the wild region around
the head waters of the Delaware River,
about twenty miles above Delhi, N. Y,
for the purpose of cutting railroad ties
and peeling bark, on contract for some
parties in Greene County. He erected
log cabin, where he and his wife, his
daughter Jennie, aged sixteen, and an
infant child made their home.
On Sunday, Dec 10, Butler was alb
sent from home, and about o'clock in
the afternoon of that day Mrs. Butler
and her daughter heard an unusual COM
motion among the pigs in the pen, log
inclosure few rods away from the house.
Going to the door of the cabin Mrs
Butler saw large black bear in the pen,
with pig weighing about sixty or'sev-
enty pounds Rugged tightly in one fore
paw and trying to get out of the inclo-
sure with it. A watch dog belonging to
the family was barking furiously at the
bear from the outside, and the pig was
wriggling and squealing. Without a
moments delay Mrs, Butler told her
daughter to take the axe, and she her
self seized a heavy mall, used in driving
wedges, and thus armed, the two women
rushed out to attack the bear. With no
thought of consequences, they both jun
ped into the pen, followed by the dog.
They began the attack at once, dealing
the bear blows heavy and fast with their
weapons. The dog harassed bruin in
the rear, and it was not long before he
dropped the pig and turned mis- attention
to his assailants. He first seized the dog
and in very short time had crushed the
life out of it The infuriated animal
then rushed with open mouth upon
the girl. She retreated slowly, using
her axe with vigor, but by sudden
blow of his paw the bear knocked the
axe from her hands and pressed her in
to a corner of the pen. But for the
hearty and vigorous attack that Mrs
Butler kept up with her mall the bear
would have crushed the girl in another
second, as he had the dog. This drew
his attention from the daughter, and he
dashed at the mother. She kept him
at distance, and shouted to her daugh-
ter to go to the house and fetch the rife
and shoot the bear. Jennie leaped from
the pen and few to the house. The
struggle between Mrs Butler and the
bear waxed hotter and hotter. She re-
treated backwards around the pen. deal
ing blow after blow with the mall, the
bear following her closely with open
mouth and blood flowing from his
wounds. Finally the bear struck the
mall and sent it flying out of the pen
Mrs. Butler erouched down in a corner
and covering her face with her hands,
had resigned herself to her fate, when
her daughter arrived with the gun. She
pushed the barrel through chink in
the logs and fired. The bear, which
stood over Mrs. Butler in the act OF
Selling her, tottered an instant on his
launches and fell over dead The ball
as was afterwards discovered, had passed
clear through the heart
After firing the shot and seeing the
result the girl tainted Mrs Butler
could not summon strength to get out
of the place for some time, but finally
succeeded in doing so, and got her daugh.
ter into the house, where she soon restor.
ed her to consciousness. The girls flesh
was considerably torn under her arms,
where the bear had grasped her, and she
was severely scratched Beyond that
neither were hurt. Monday the girl
walked to where her father was at work
and told him of the adventure. He
came in and dressed the bear. 1t weigh
ed over three hundred pounds N Y
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