THE EVENING STAR — MARCH 16, 1895
A M O D E R N R O C ♢ ( West Virginia Mountaineers Terrorized by a Gigantic Bird ) ♢ A Ten-Year-Old Child Carried Off by the Feathered Monster—A Hunter’s Terrible Battle.
West Virginia Correspondence Globe-Democrat.
Not since the treacherous Gauley river rose suddenly in the night and swept scores of the mountaineers living along its banks to death in its icy waters, has Webster county been so excited as it is at present. From away down on Cherry river to the remotest settlements on Sugar run, in the upper part of the county, the mountaineers are talking of the gigantic bird which has been terrorizing this section for the past week or ten days.
About two weeks ago a child of Dan Junkins, who lives over on Bergoo, some fifteen miles from this place, suddenly disappeared in a manner which for a time puzzled the oldest hunters and woodsmen of the county. It is now regarded as an absolute certainty that the child, a little girl of ten years, fell a prey to the winged monstrosity which for want of a better name the mountaineers call an eagle.
Little Landy was sent by her mother one Friday afternoon to the cabin of Joe Warnick, a mile and a half south of that of Junkins’, to ask after Mrs. Warnick, who had been sick. The girl started soon after noon for the Warnick cabin, but never reached there, and vanished as completely as if she had been spirited away by supernatural power. As Landy did not return by 4 or 5 o’clock
