Cheboygan County MI Archives News.....Hunter and Bear Killed in a Death Struggle in the Woods September 17, 1883
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Ohio Plain Dealer September 17, 1883
A Terrible Struggle

Detroit, September 17.-The body of a man has been found in the woods eight miles 
from Cheboygan and identified as that of Frank Deveraux, a homesteader, who 
lived near that locality. The surroundings show that he was killed in a bear 
fight, which resulted fatally for both, as the animal's body was found near that 
of the dead man. Deveraux's body was in a sitting posture, braced against a log, 
where he had evidently placed himself after his contest with the beast. 
Evidences of a terrible struggle were plainly visible all about, but those on 
the man were most prominent, and his left side, cheek and legs had been gnawed 
nearly to the bone, one shoulder was dislocated, an eye gouged out, his stomach 
almost torn open, and marks of the bear's claws were discernable on various 
parts of the body. The bear had been shot through the shoulder, and, aggravated 
by his wound, a terrible struggle had evidently ensued, as the ground was torn 
up for twenty feet about the spot, and the print of the bear's teeth and bunches 
of hair were found on the gun Deveraux had used.

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