Bear attack near Emmitsburg ends with drowning in barn
Between Emmitsburg and Thurmont Daniel Shorb fought a half grown bear in his barn after his cow spooked. Frank Neck aided by throwing a stone, then a proy in the eye blinded the beast and it fell into a well where it drowned. The pelt will be kept by the Shorb family.
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