Left their home near Job, W. Va., to Gather Wild Flowers.
    A Job, W. Va., special says: ‘To be crused to death in the embrace of a monstrous black bear and their little bodies afterward mangled and partly devoured was the frightful fate that befell the three young children of E. P. Porterfield, a mountaineer. The remains were found by a searching party which had been out for forty-eight hours. The party included John Weidon, a Maryland hunter, who, within a few minutes after the discovery of the bodies, shot and killed the bear in a neighboring thicket. The children were Mary, aged 3; Willie, aged 5, and Henry, aged 7. They left home to gather flowers in a clearing near their home. Nothing more is known, but it is supposed that they wandered into the woods, and becoming lost continued on their way until they were overtaken by the bear in the dense forest three miles from their parents’ home. The bear feasted off all three of the bodies. The bones of the children had been crushed like straws, and the flesh stripped off with teeth and claws.”
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