Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-06-22
[FrOm the Providence Journal. June g.
Farioa. Eiephan, a, Large.

(Fron the Providence Journal. June 6.
A Farioa. Eiephan, at Large.
The large elephant Hannibal, attach
ed to the Broadway menagerie, which
was on exhibition at Pawtucket on the
ed instant, got loose from his keeper on
the way from Pawtucket to Fall River,
early yesterday morning. Before start
ing his keeper made him lift the hinder
part of a wagon loaded with $500
pounds, for the purpose of getting it in
to line. 1t is supposed that this, al
though not unusual, might have sug-
gested to him the mode of attack which
he adopted 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
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 terribly 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 enormous
tusks in this encounter. A mile further
the elephant, now grown more furious,
attacked in the same 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 in the
hip.
While the keepers were engaged in
securing the smaller elephant, who had
not, however, manifested any signs of
insubordination, the larger one got off
from them, and went through Barney
vile, when Mr.. Mason Barney and an
other man mounted their 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 occa-
sionally turn to look at them, but did not
attempt to molest them.
The next man in the path was Mr..
Pearce, who was riding with his little
son in one-horse wagon. He was
coming towards the elephant, and be-
ing warned by Mr.. Barney, turned
round and put the horse to his speed,
but the elephant overlook him, and seiz-
ing the wagon, threw it into the air,
dashing it into 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 unsuccessful pursuit, and
took up his march on the main road,
where he next encountered Mr.. j. Eddy,
with 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 a
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 pursu-
ed another, who fled to barn; the ele-
phant followed, but at the door was met
by fierce bulldog, which bit his leg
and drove him off, Once on the route,
the keeper being ahead of him, saw
him plunge over wall and make for
house. The keeper got into the house
first, hurried the frightened people with
in to the upper story, and providing him
self with an axe, succeeded in driving
off the furious beast. The elephant
exhausted his strength, and laid him
self down in the bushes, about two miles
from Slade's Ferry. Here be was Sc
cured with chains; and carried over the
ferry to Fall River. A part of the time
he ran at the rate of a mile in three
minutes.