The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-06-15

A FURIous ELKPHASr AT LAaoE-Three
Horses RiHed-Nvmerous Wagons DemoI-
isAed-A number efPersoas kTJured.-The
large elephant Hannibal, attached to the
Broadway Menagerie, which was on exhi-
biion at Pawtucket on the 81 instant, got
loose from his keeper on the way from
Ptwtucket to Fall River early yesterday
morning. Before starting, his keeper made
him lift the hinder part of a wagon loaded
with 8 500 pounds, for the purpose of get
ting it into line. 1t is supposed that this,
although not unusual, might have suggest
ed to him the mode Of attack which he a.
dopted afterwards.
When about seven miles from Pawtucket
he became furious, turned upon his keeper,
who had to fly for his life and take refuge
in a house, got free and rushed along the
road, destroying everything in his way
Meeting a horse and wagon belonging to
Mr.. Stafford Short, he thrust his tusk into
the horse and lifted horse, wagon and rider
into the air. He mangled the horse terri
bly, and carried him about fifty feet, and
threw the dead body into a pond. The
wagon was broken to pieces, and Mr.. Short
considerably hurt. The elephant broke
one Of his tusks in this encounter.
A mile further the elephant, now grown
more furious, attacked in the anne manner
a horse and wagon, with Mr.. Thomas w.
Peck and his son. He broke the wagon
and wounded the horse, which ran away,
Mr.. Peck was pretty badly hurt inthe
hip.
While the keepers were engaged in Sc
cnring the smaller elephant, who had not
however, manifested any signs of insubor-
dination, the larger one got off from them,
and went through Barneyville, when Mr..
Mason Barney and another man mounted
theta horses and kept on his track as near
to him as was prudent, giving warning OF
the danger to the passengers whom they
met on the way. The elephant would oc-
c~asionally turn to look at them, but did not
attempt to modest them.
The nextman in the path was Mr.. Pcarce,
who was riding with his little son in a one
horse wagon. He was coming toward the
elephant, and being warned by Mr.. Bar
ney, turned around and put the horse to
his speed, but the elephant overlook him,
and seizing the wagon, threw it into the
air, dashing it to pieces, and breaking the
collar bone and arm of Mr.. Pearce. The
horse, disengaged from the wagon, escaped
with the fore wheels,and the elephant gave
chase for eight miles, but did not catch him.
The elephant came back from his unsuc-
cessful pursuit, and took up his march again
on the main road, where he next encoun-
tered Mr., ]. Eddy, with a horse and wag-
on. He threw up the whole establishment
in the same way as before, smashed the
wagon, killed the horse, and wounded Mr..
Eddy. He threw the horse twenty feet
over a fence into the adjoining lot, then
broke down the fence, went " and pick
ed up the dead horse and deposited him in
the road, where he had first met him.
He killed one horse, and pursued anoth-
err, who fled to a barn;the elephant followed,
but at the door was met bya fierce bull
dog, whichb III his legs and drove him Off
Once on the route, the keeper being "a
head of him, saw him plunge over a wall
and make for a house. The keeper got in
to the house first, hurried the ffighteded
people within to the upper story, and pro-
viding himself with an axe, succeeded in
driving off the furious beast. The elephant
finally exhausted his strength, and laid him
self down in the bushes, about two miles
from Slade's Ferry. Here he was secured
with chains and carried over the ferry to
Fall River. A part ofthe time he ran at
the rate of a mile in three minutes.