From the January 24, 1885 New York Times:

“Kankakee, Ill.–A.H. Butts, Secretary of the Chicago Lumber Company, has just returned from the logging camp near Metropolitan, Mich., a point in the pineries 40 miles north of Escanaba. He says the night before he left camp the mercury had dropped to 43º below zero. This was the climax of four days of very extreme weather. That night an old trapper and Indian hunter named Tom Dudging, returning from hunting, was killed and eaten by wolves within two miles of camp. The wolves there are more numerous and bold than usual on account of the scarcity of small game. His friends, searching for him the next morning, found his closely gnawed bones. Thirteen dead wolves were lying near him pierced by his rifle balls, and his Winchester rifle was by his side with one chamber loaded.”