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Show YOUNG BOY ATTACKED BY BIGJRAY EAGLE Monster Bird Swoops Down on Child, Carries Him 50 Yards, Then Releases Him. Coweta, I. T. Tlic five-year-old son of Nero Charles, a farmer living near Coweta, was attacked by a large gray caglo a few days ago, and narrowly Bcapcil with his Ilfo after being carried car-ried CO yards by tho florco bird. So far as known, this Is tho first Urn In tho history of Iudlan Territory thnt r ... - -? The Fierce Bird Carried the Child Fifty Yards. a child has actually been picked up and carried by nn eagle. Tho child, with others, was playing In n Hold on Its fathers farm, noar Jackson Ferry, on VordlgrlB river, eight miles northoast of Cowota, whon tho eaglo swooped down upon him, catching the child's clothing with Its talons and starting off. The screaniB of tho other children apparently ap-parently frightened tho eagle, nnd, finding that It could not mako much progregs with tho child, It dropped him CO yards from tho placo where ho was picked up. Tho child weighs CO pounds, and at no tlmo did tho eaglo succeed in getting get-ting moro than eight or ten feet abavo tho ground with him. The child was not Injured save for a few bruises and scratches 'when his parents par-ents found him. Tho eagle made no attempt to atrlko lta talona Into the ohlld nor beat him with its wings. It has beou known for somo time that there woro two gray eagles neat-Ins neat-Ins on tho Verdigris river not far from Jackson's Ferry. About ten days ago a farmer named Klrkbrlde, who lives near the ferry, killed one f Uio eagles with a rifle. They were very cunning, and It was Impossible Impos-sible to get clos cnouih to kill thm with a shotgun. - When this oagle was shot It was devouring a pig which It had killed. Slnco tho child' was attacked by tho caglo nnothor 1 ono has been killed, and It Is bcllovcd' that these two aro tho only ones on tho river Unit nm largo and florco enough to cniiHo trouble. Kach of the two killed measured ovor sovon foot from Up to Up of wings. |