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Desperate Wildlife Encounters Across the North Atlantic
A long wild narrative details near fatal maulings and improbable survivals as Americans ingest peril from sea and land. Fisherman Charles McVane survives a giant lobster attack after duck hunting near Portland Maine. Sawmill worker A S Otto fights copperhead snakes in a wagonload of sawdust, killing fifty five and wounding forty five. Dr Penrose shoots a mother bear protecting cubs, then is mauled and survives. Hunter John McEachern rides a bear to a cliff and kills it with a knife and stake. A Maine druggist, Russell Nelson, is dragged by a moose with belt tangled on antlers, survives. Sergei Seidel holds a wild cat to live nine miles before help arrives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles McVane
Long Irlm
Cargco Bay
Portland
Ram Island
McVane
Dory
Jobuter
St. Clairsville
Bedford County
Pennsylvania
A. S. Otto
Otto
America
Til
Char
Penrose
United States
Vounsylvouke
Lake McDonald
Montana
Spruce Street
Philadelphia
Jim
Dr. Penrose
Amer
Hearst
Crites
Iis
Penrage Wce
Rochester
Minn
John McEachern
Caucomgomac Lake
Neil Russell
McEachern
McRachern
MeEachern
MeKachern
Maine
Russell Nelson
Spencer Lake District
Nelson
Darwin
Heaven
Little Spencer Lake Noleon
Drugelet Nelson
Ahowhegan
Colorado
John Sebel
Smith
Che Tao
Seidel
Wroce
Winn
Selgel
Sergei
Ann
Edward Smith
Seigels
Seigel