FIGHT WITH BEAR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17918, 24 October 1932, Page 11

FIGHT WITH BEAR

CANADIAN KILLED , :. -J ■■ WIFE DIES OF SHOCK EMERSON, Manitoba, Sept. 19, The sweeping paw an.enraged and wounded bear brought death to Tanaska Kawulia on his farm at Gardenton,. 30 miles east of here, over the week-end, and a.few minutes later his wife, overcome by shock at seeing her husband killed, died from a heart . attack. i Kawulia and his son William engagi cd the boar in mortal combat when the ’ animal wandered into their barnyaxd i with the cows coining in from the pasture. They chased .it up a tree and i then attacked it with a knife attached • to a long pole. The. bear stuck to Ins ) tree, ami the son fired at him with one 1 barrel of a double-barrelled shotgun. * The shot blew out one of bruin’s 1 eyes and left a gaping wound in las head. Enraged, the bear dropped down and ran after the old man. The son tried to stop him with the other shot, but the cartridge proved a dud. Kawulia, sen., tripped over a stone and the bear tore open the prostrate man’s abdomen, killing him instantly. Sirs. Kawulia suffered from a weak heart and collapsed at the gruesome sight of her husband’s death. phe ' died in a few minutes. When William V went to the ahfofhis mother, the Jt angry beast limped off into a swamp, £: where it. .was found by a posse ol: alaramed farmers and killed 400 yards 8 from tlie scene "-of- the struggle. \ ' The 08-year-old farmer and his wile, 3 aged 05 ; yere buried together yester-