Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-06-09

AN ELEPHANT AT LARGE.--The large ele.
plant attached to the Broadway menaqerie,
got loose from his keeper on the way from
Pawtucket to Fall River, early yesterday morn.
ing. Before starting, his keeper made him lift
the hinder part Of wagon, loaded with $500
pounds, for the purpose of getting it into line.
It is supposed that this, although not unusual.
might have suggested to him the mode Of at.
tack which he adopted afterwards. When about
seven miles from Pawtucket, he got free from
the control of his keeper, and meeting q 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 terribly, and carried him about fifty
feet, and threw the dead body into pond. The
wagon was broken to pieces, and Mr.. Short
considerably hurt. The elephant broke one of
his enormous tusks in this encounter. a mile
further, the elephant, now grown more furioua.
attacked in the same manner 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 in the hip.
While the keepers vera engaged in securing
the smaller elephant, who had not, however,
manifested any signs of INSTRUMENTATION. tha
larger one got off from them, and went ON
through Barneyville, when Mr.. Mason Barney
and another man mounted their horses and
kept on his track as near to him as was pru-
dent giving warning of the danger to the pase
sengers whom they met on the way. The ele-
plant would occasionally turn to look at them.
but did not attempt to modest them.
The next man in the path was Mr.. Pearce.
who was riding with his little son in a one,
horse wagon. He was coming towards the
elephant, and being warned by Mr.. Barney,
turned around and put the horse to his speed.
but the elephant overlook him, and Selling the,
wagon, threw it into the air dashinp 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 bnt
did not catch him. The elephant came back
from his unsuccessful pursuit and took mn b;s
march again on the main road, where he next
encountered Mr.. Jabez Eddy, with a horse and
wagon. 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 fence into
the adjoining lot, then broke down the fence.
went over and picked up the dead horse, and
deposited him in the road where he had first
met him.
He killed one other horse and pursued an
other, who fed to barn. The elephant fol.
lowed, but at the door was met by a fierce bull
dog, which bit his leg and drove him off.
Once on the route, the keeper being ahead
Of him, saw him plunge over wall and mako
for house. The keeper got into the house
frst, hurried the frightened people within to
The upper story, and providing himself with an
axe, succeeded in driving off the furious beast.
The elephant finally exhausted his strength.
and laid himself down in the bushes, about two
miles from Shades Ferry. Here he was Sc
cured with chains and carried over the ferry to
fall River. part of the time he ran at the
rate OF mile in three minutes.
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