Show IAL IALO O winnipeg wolves in the winter of 1890 deer were unusually scarce in the forests east of lake A wet cold summer had destroyed an uncommonly large proportion of fawns consequently wolves were without their accustomed food supply their distress made them forget their fear of human beings one morning in january reached winnipeg city that a band auml ering wolves had slain many indian hunters along the east shore this turned out to be true several of the men were caught on foot one climbed a tree and shot twenty wolves another clubbed a dozen to death before they pulled him down one hauter mounted a platform erected on poles for the purpose of keeping eans above the reach of wild beasts and vermin he had hardly begun firing aheu the wolves pressed and leaped about the posts in such numbers that they threw down the platform and tore tho man to pieces the same band had visited other camps how many indians in all were devoured could not be exactly ascertained as more than one hunting party was said to have been completely wiped out youths companion |