Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-08-11
SAVAGE CANNES.
Ferocity of the Man Eating Dog. of
Labrador

Eeroctty of the Man Eating Dous of
Labrador.
No fewer than five people were Killed
and eaten last winter by the savage
dogs Of Labrador's dreary seaboard.
One of the victims was a man thirty
five years of age named Cumby, who
left Battle Harbor, Belle Isle strait, on
April 3 with some other men, essH
driving a dog team, making fsf
forest inland to bring out loa1" NV
wood. Cumby's dogs w% 'N ,'' w
ally vicious, and previct., " ms n ~"
men always had GO" -" ,'''- 49,
on this occasion nc LOOK 'nein "ioi'''
When the f,test was reached every
NOV I'D MS own trail Cumby's dogs
rr.+ rTe begun fighting among them
..,.ss, and in endeavoring TO clear them
.le got entangled in the traces and fell
among them. Thereupon the whole
pack turned upon him. He fought dss-
perately with an AK, killing two split
ting another's head and severely
wounding several more. But their num-
bers proved too much for him. His
brother had heard his cries for aid and
rushed to his help. but was too late, and
SO furious were the dogs that he dared
not face them alone. but had TO wait
till his comrades gathered to recover
the sadly mutilated remains from the
snarling fangs Then the body was
brought home and given Christian
burial.
The other case was that of four per-
sons named Lane, an old man Of sixty.
his wife. daughter and grandchild, who
left Ford Harbor. $50 miles farther
north, on March s to visit the Moravian
mission at Main. Since that day moth
inc has ever been heard of them, but
the dogs returned TO Ford Harbor thir-
teen days later, and because of frag-
ments of human garb adhering to the
sledge it is believed that they devoured
the four. none of whom could make any
effective defense against the brutes.
These Labrador dogs are known far
and wide for their uncomfortable sava
agery. There is 4 large admixture of
wolflsh blood in them, many indeed
being the direct offspring of wolf and
dog. The wolves of Labrador are OF
the same species and quite as vicious
as those of Siberia.
Another fine, according to the well
known Dr. Grenfell, a tragedy almost
occurred at his hospital at Battle Har-
Dor. with its matron as the victim. He
writes: a nasty accident with the
dogs seemed likely to prove fatal IN
late December to Mrs. Williams. She
happened to fall, and the whole hungry
pack attacked her But for the for
tunate arrival Of woman with an AK
It might have been fatal. When we
were at Hebron last summer the set
tiers told me that the dogs had recently
killed and eaten a boy Of thirteen
years who was bringing a seal from
his fathers boat to his home"
Yet another tragedy caused by these
animals was at HoltOn, where they set
upon and killed an elderly woman who
had fallen on the Ice in crossing the
harbor there. At Cradle they killed
and devoured a man three years ago.
At Cartwright, another time, they de-
stroyed a fifteen year old girl while she
was going to a well. At Main they
stole the baby out of the cradle in a
settlers hut there, and when the horri-
fed mother sought for her child moth
ing remained but its blood bedraggled
garments.-Chicago News.