WOMEN’S FIGHT WITH EAGLE

Evening Star, Issue 17765, 13 September 1921, Page 6

WOMEN’S FIGHT WITH EAGLE

An eaglo recently fought savagely against Mrs George Williams, of Homestead, Pa., and Mrs B. Ruffing, of Greenburg, when the women attacked the bird after it had seized Mrs Williams’s daughter, Dorothy, two and a-half years old, and was about to fly away with tho child. The scene was about seventeen miles from Greousburg, in the foothills of the Alleghany Mountains, where Mr and Mrs Williams, with their daughter, were visiting the Ruffings. Tho women were picking hemes in tho hills when tho eagle darted down on the child. Mrs Williams struck the bird with her berry bucket again and again, and forced it to drop tho child. Mrs Ruffing, armed- with a club, came to the aid of Mrs Williams, and after several minutes of hard fighting forced the eagle into the air. Barring deep scratches on her body, tho child was uninjured. Mrs Ruffing was badly cut about the head and shoulders by the bird’s talons. The women declared that the wingspread of the eagle was at least 15ft.