From the September 25, 1888 New York Times:

“Chicago–A dispatch from Wichita, Kan., says: The baby of a farmer, William Beattie, who lives on the Cimarron River, north of the Territory line, was carried off by an eagle Saturday. Beattie went to work in the morning, leaving in his dug-out his two children, one 5 years old and a baby aged 2 months. About noon Beattie returned home and found his girl in tears. She said she had taken the baby into the yard and left it while she went into the house. In a few minutes she heard a cry, and in looking out saw the baby ‘flying away,’ as she expressed it. The father knew at once that an eagle has visited his home and summoned his neighbors to the wooded banks of the river, for which the eagle had made. In about an hour the sound of a shot summoned the searchers together. One of the men had found the eagle and was engaged in a conflict with it. He had emptied his gone at the big bird and was using his gun as a club when reinforcements arrives. The eagle fluttered into the bush and then the father saw his infant dead, the body badly lacerated.”