St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-29
MOURNING F0R JUMBO.
The Afflicted Press OF the Country
Attes1s EIis Worth,


Atheists E1is Worth.
1t has been long time since the Eastern
press found itself in such an unassuaged
cave of gloom as that in which it is now
wallowing. No public calamity has stirred
the newspapers of the effete East to such
lugubriouS woe as is now manifest. Re
publicS might go down and the Savior of
men be again betrayed, insulted and cruci-
fed, and the habilimentS and outward signs
of mourning could not be more elaborate
and conspicuous. The cause of
this deep-rOOted grief is found in
the untimely and deep damnation of the
taking off of Jumbo. the mammoth of his
kind and the observed of all observers. The
metropolitan press of the country finds in
this tragedy, between the trickling tears,
much that is worthy of editorial comment
The Philadelphia and New Y orll papers es-
pecially vie with each other in the attempt
to do the proper caper by the dead masto-
don. The News of the former city says:
1.-THE only living thing in this world that
ever combined heroiSm and twelve tons of
avoirdupois was Jumbo trying to save the
life Of the baby elephant" The Times of
the same city thinks Jumbo will be
greater in his death than he ever
in bereaved sort Of way lays this last
tribute upon the huge carcass: ''The death
of Jumbo falls little short of a personal
bereavement to thousands and thousands of
persons in this country, and it will also be
sorry news for his faithful admirers in
England. The great animal had fund of
intelligence proportiOned to his bulk and
was as gentle as he was huge. 1t adds to
the distress at his loss that it must have been
largely the result of careleSSneSS."
In New York the sentiment appears to be
equally tender, and finds expression in the
public prints as follows: The Mail and
Express says: Jumbo is dead. The huge
brute was the victim of a railway accident
in Canada last night. Like many other pas
sengerS, he was careless in taking the train,
and his carelessneSS cost him his life. His
mammoth carcass could not resist the i'm
pact of a passing freight train, and however
many other friends may have forgotten
him, there will be at least one sincere
mourner to bewail his fate-Mr. Barnum. -
The News mikes disgust with its grief as
follows: sit took a disorderly locomotive
and freight train, with all that the names
imply of destructive power, to kill Jumbo.
1t cannot be considered wholly inglorious
end to his career, for, unless he had been
blown up with dynamite or shocked to
death by electricity, he could not have sue
cumbed to force more tremendous
and irresistible" The Morning Jour-
nal, to whom the death of the
huge beast seems to have been almost a
personal matter, sends forth piteous wall:
''AlaS, poor Jumbo! we could have better
spared better beast. To have lived these
many years, to have been the pet of Eng
| lands ariStocracy and the darling of the
| 'ZOO,' to have shown capacity of appre-
ciating the blessings of American freedom
in quite too wonderful manner for an ele-
phant, and to perish at last victim to a
| freight train, is too, too distressing for
words. Farewell good Jumbo, we shall
never see so big an elephant again" The
Albany Times thus records the animals
virtues as manifested by the last act of his
public career: ''Now, it seems that Jumbo
lost his life while trying to rescue his pet
elephant. Tom Thumb, from the coming
train. There was good deal OF character
in Jumbo.' Even the Pittsburg CONNER
cial Gazette was moved as follows over the
lamentable occurrence: Jumbo lost his
life in trying to save the baby elephant, but
the little one has been shot in consequence
of breaking its leg by fall when thrown
out Of the way Of the approaching train.
So both the largest and the smallest ele-
phant were sacrificed to the voracious MAI
OF the remorseleSS locomotive"
The huge beast had friends on the press
as far west as Wisconsin, as evidenced BY
this from the Wisconsin State Journal
''All the little boys in the country, and
thousands of gray-heads, too, will be sin
cerely sorry when they hear that P. T. Bar
NUNS wonderful monster elephant, Jumbo
was killed by railroad train in Canada
Tuesday night. Jumbo won his way to the
hearts of millions during the few season:
he was with u.s." The royal beast haC
friends in the South, as well as in the
North, East and West. The Wheeling In
telligencer thus mourns: Poor old Jumbo
has had to hand in his checks. A locomo
tive was dangerous thing for him to wall
over, but it got smashed up about as bad a.
Jumbo. The small boys will feel sadn