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A correspondent of The Caddo Gazette, writing under date of the 28th alt., from Parailitta, Arkansas, on Upper Red River, states that the cold during the present Win ter has been in tat region the severest within the memory of man. The rivers were frozen solid, the plains presented an unbroken sheet of snow, ‘The writer relates the following story of an attempt to capure the famous wild man, who has been so often encountered on the borders of Arkansas and Northern Louisiana: “In my travels I met a party from your country in pursuit of a wild man. They had struck his trail at a cane-brake, border ing on Brant Lake and the Sun-Flower Prairie. I learned from one of the party that the dogs ran him to an arm of the lake which was frozen, but not sufficiently strong to bear its weight, which consequently gave away. He had however, crossed, and the dogs were at fault. One of the party, mounted on a fleet horse, coming up, encouraged the dogs to pursue, but found it impossible to cross with his horse, and concluded to follow the lake and round until he could ascertain the di rection taken by the monster of the forest. On reaching the opposite side of the bend, he was surprised to see something in the lake like a man breaking the ice with his arms, and hastened under cover of the under growth, to the spot where he expected him to come out. He concealed himself near the place, when he had a full view of him, until he reached the shore, where he came out and shook himself. He represents him as a stout, athletic man, about six feet four inches in hight, completely covered with hair of a brownish cast about four to six inches long. He was well muscled and ran up the bank with the fleetness of a deer. “He says he could have killed him with his gun, but the object of the party being to take him alive, and hearing the horns of his comrades and the howling of the dogs on the opposite bank of the lake, he concluded to ride up and head him, so as to bring him to bay and then secure their prize. So soon, however, as the wild man saw the horse and rider he rushed frantically toward them, and in an instant dragged the hunter to the ground and tore him in a most dreadful manner, scratching out one of his eyes and injuring the other so much that his comrades despair of the recovery of his sight, and bi ting large pieces out of his shoulders and various parts of his body. The monster then tore off the saddle and bridle from the horse and destroyed them, and holding the horse by the mane, broke a short piece of sapling, and mounting the animal, started at full speed across the plains in the direction of the mountains, guiding the horse with his club. The person left with the wounded man informed me that the party was still in persun, having been joined by a band of friendly Indians and thought that if they could find a place in the mountains not covered with snow, or a canebrake in the vicinity to feed their horses, they might over take him in a day or two.”
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Warren Mail
Warren, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Apr 19, 1856
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