Cheboygan County MI Archives News.....James Gillespie - Horrible Fate April 13, 1891
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Jackson Citizen Patriot April 13, 1891
A Woodchopper Disables Himself and is Killed and Eaten by Wolve

Cheboygan, Mich., April 13.-While John and James Gillespie were chopping in the 
woods near Mullet Lake, a few miles from here, Saturday, James' ax slipped and 
sank into his ankle. His brother John attempted to stanch the flow of blood and 
carry him two miles to the nearest house, but the load and deep snow was too 
much, and at James' suggestion John started for the settlement alone, leaving 
James in the snow. John roused a party of rescuers, who started out to bring 
James.

On arriving near the place where John had left his younger brother, they came to 
a lot of blood stains and wolf tracks in the snow, and following the trail they 
beheld a pack of wolves growling and fighting over a lot of bones and shreds of 
clothing. The party beat the wolves off with their axes, as they had no other 
weapons, and took all that remained of James back to Mullet Lake for burial.

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