Jackson-Clinton County IA Archives News.....Attacked By Wolves March 11, 1883
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Jackson Sentinel, March 11, 1883 March 11, 1883
Jackson Sentinel, March 11, 1883 

ATTACKED BY WOLVES 

On Sunday evening last, Lewis Anderson, of Maquoketa, traveling salesman for 
H. G. French & Son, music dealers, found himself at Delmar at 9 o'clock. His 
children were sick and he wanted to get to his home in Maquoketa, so he set 
out on foot up the railroad track. After going a mile or two he heard the 
howling of a pack of wolves, but paid little attention to it as he had often 
seen and heard wolves before in the timber where he was brought up and 
considered them no danger to him. He continued his journey along the railroad 
tracks until he reached the Daniel Stephens Crossing, when he turned off onto 
the highway with intention of following the wagon road the rest of the way to 
town. Shortly after turning the corner which is directly south of H. B. 
Griffin's house, he heard a breathing and rustling sound and saw in the bright 
moonlight three wolves bounding along through an adjacent field directly 
toward him. They jumped the fence and in a flash Lou pulled his overcoat off 
and shaking it and yelling at them backed up the hill toward Mr. Griffin's 
house. The wolves plunged against the coat and Lou said he was so badly 
frightened he hardly knew what he was doing. However, as he got near Mr. 
Griffin's house the wolves turned and ran back in the direction they came. The 
folks at the house heard the noise and as they were about to come out and see 
what it meant, they met Lou at the door, who was so exhausted with fright that 
he nearly fainted. Thinking the incident a very strange one, Mr. Griffin went 
to the place of attack to investigate and found the wolf tracks in the snow as 
Lou had said. There are wolves, plenty of the along the creek and river 
bottoms, but we never knew of their attacking a man before. No doubt these 
wolves were maddened with hunger and Lou's overcoat, the only weapon he had, 
was all that prevented them from attacking him. 




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