Bears Charge Two Men, <
One Slightly Mauled -■!
Verne St. Louis, former K
diak resident, and Clint Stock
ley, Alaska Department of
Fisheries biologist, have both
had exciting experiences with
charging Kodiak bears.
St. Louis was knocked to
the ground by an enraged
bruin and Stockley stopped his
with four shots from a range
of a few feet.
Both bears stood for a mo
ment looking at their quarries
before charging them. In a
letter St. Louis gave the fol
lowing account of his experi
ence:
“I was hiking accompanied
by Billy Freeburn, son of the
superintendent of the Alaska
Packers cannery at Larsen
Bay, and by an Elkhound pup,
along a small creek. Hearing
a noise we looked up and saw
a bear standing on its hind
legs looking over the brush at
us. He was about 60 feet
from us.
“Suddenly and without not
ice the bear was practically
upon us. Billy, not having a
gun, jumped behind a small
cottonwood tree as the bear
rushed by him and headed for
me snorting viciously. I fired
a shot but it was apparently
deflected by the brush.
Charles Reynolds, civilian
employee at Kodiak Naval
Station, left by MATS Thurs
day for Seattle to board a
commercial plane for Niagara
Falls, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds had
planned to leave aboard the
USS Funston later in the
month for a vacation. A wire
to Reynolds telling of the ser
ious illness of his mother was
the reason for his earlier de
parture.
• Mrs. Reynolds, typesetter at
the MIRROR, will leave on
the Funston to join her hus
band.
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“I caught my foot in some
brush and fell and looked up
to see the bear with mouth
wide standing over me. I let
out a loud yell and shoved
with my arms. By some mira
cle the bear turned and ran!
When I got back to the cann
ery I found a hole torn in my
shirt and two long red scra
tches on my arms.”
Stockley’s bear also ‘‘snort
ed viciously”.
He was standing in a red
salmon stream on Afognak Is
land counting salmon when
he looked up and ‘ ‘30 feet a
way Ursus was
me.” Stockley’s
the encounter
comes in a rolling rush . . the
first 220 grain bullet busted
him at 18 feet from me. I
jumped to the right about 10
feet and he started turning
and sounding the great whis
tle.
staring at
account of
said: “ He
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next slug same spot
j and his front wheels folded
up. No. 3 same place as he
starts to get up. No. 4 to quiet
the great dying engine . . my
only sensation afterwards
was that the skin on my face
was awfully tight.”
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