Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-08
sarnum Burnt Out.
Exciting scenes During che Nos
trucSiou OF RIs Muscuna.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Loud above the noise of fame and
| water and the shouting Of fircmen,
wore heard The cries Of the ENGAGED
beasts which were being roasted
alive. Tho lions and lionesscs uttered
piercing and blood-curdling ahrieks.
Tho tigers howled horribly. The
elephant trumpoted out its agony in
most nncartlily notes. The monkeys
squealed und walled like infants.
The sea lion. gave forth strange and
fearful cry. For fiftocn minutes these
awful sounds Of suffering went up
a.nid the fame aud smoke. Ever
and anon, something would fall into
the fameN, bright cloud OF sparks
would ascend, then a volume of thick
smoke, and then the voice Of some
Gagged martyr would be silent. The
eject tha. these appalling sounds
had on the hundreds of spectators
that Lad gathered near the scene
! casnot be described. Some mcn ran
wildly about with tears in their
voices asking, "Can nothing be done
to save these poor benstsr w'm
ready" '.aEd l." responded mon by
the score, but tho more calm firemen
kept the excited crowd back, and
men who would willingly have run
personal risk to aid in rescuing the
animals, were fam TO confess that
their efforts would be useless. A
ino panther was seen to actually
bend the bars ofits cage in its dcsper-
ate energy, aud to squeeze through.
AS IL was in the act of escaping, a
wall fell upon it and crushed it 10
death. AS already stated, all old
and u young elephant were set free,
and made for tie street. The old el-
ephant reached place Of safety first.
1t lay down in tho middle Of Four
tecnth street aud beloved loudly, as
though calling for tho young one.
The young one presently came trot-
ting up to its side. The old elephant
carcssed the young one with its trunk
and putting its trunk over its COM
panion's back, as for protection, the
two walked slowly up Irving place.
After going u short distance, they
Suffered themselves.io be captured.
a camel also escaped. II made no
demonstration. II seemed utterly
prostratcd from fear. Its limbs Guiv-
cred, its sides heavod with excitement,
and big fears stood III its eyes. Tho
story OF the unfortunate giraffe has
already been told. 4 keeper was
leading him cut by a rope when the
rope caught fire. The fire ran up the
rope to the giratle's manc ha reared
aud foil back into tho flames. A gen.
tlenan who was on the spot just
after the fire was first discovered says
that he saw tiger spring from amid
q afailing ,naEs Of ruins, with his name
aud hair in flames. lie says also that
lie saw threeor four monkeys leaping
about the front Of the building just
before the fire reached that part.
Later on in the day a Sun reporter
climbed tho building in the rear of
the ruins, and looked down upon tho
scene. In the northeast corner lay a
black, sodden mass Of flesh, with
fragments of crisp skin adhering to
it. 1t was the body of tho splendid
elephant Pedro, which was only
brought to this country last week.
Head and legs had been destroyed.
The whole Of Bsrnum's hippodromc
is pile OF ruins. With the exception
of the .wo elephants and the camel
not thing was saved. Tho horses
arc always kept in the stable in
Eleventh street, and they, of course,
were uniijured.
The following is a list of the ami
mails burned: Four giraires, two
white polar boars, two monster sea
lions, one horned horse, seals, Alpine
goat, ostrich, pe!icans, two Abyssin-
ian lions, two Bengal tigers, ono
Asiatic yak, one Gland, one llama,
leopards, serpents, apes, gorillas,
ehacmn, six camcls, two dromedarics,
one elephant, happy family, and othor
minor animals, amounting to one
hundred specimens.