The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-17
ANGRY ELEPHANT LOOSE.
EXCITING MARCH FROM HOBoKEN
TO JERSEY CITY.
Prince, Late OF Glen Isl and, Eurls
One Man 0ainst a Building and

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Throws Another Down and Then
Walks over Him, but Doesn't Kurt
Him-Frightened at Trains.
From the NeiO York Sun.
An elephant raised a great rumpus in
Hoboken and Jersey City early yesterday
morning. Several days ago Mr.. Hermann
Reiche received an order from Messrs. An
derson & Wallace, Of Peru, Ind, for car
load of animals. Among the animals or
dered was an elephant Arrangements
were made to ship all the animals to Indi-
ana early yesterday morning. Mr. Reiche
! went to Hoboken on Sunday evening so as
TO be ready to superintend the shipment in
the morning. He slept in his big house adj
joining his animal barn, and at little be-
fore o'clock he arose and went to work.
There was no trouble with any of the ami
mails except Prince, the elephant. He is 10
| years old, and ands Just % feet. He has
been accustomed to passing mis- summers for
several years on Glen Island, and his
| disposition was soured there by the atten-
lions of mischievous boys. Since the close
OF the season there he has been tied up i'll
the Hobok N barn This did not improve
his temper. He looked so vicious hen the
| Yesterday morning
! that they fastened his feet together with
heavy chains. The chains ran from his hind
feet to his fore feet, and although they were
| loug enough to allow of his walking they
prevented his taking very long steps. Hav-
| ing thus slightly hampered Princes free
dom of movement, the men turned him
loose. Then two of them, Edward Thieler
and Robert Puck, approached Prince with
| two little hooks, shaped Just like boathooks
nd ha6 h 70
the street. They inserted the hooks into
Princes ear and into his lower lip. ,xSa
The street was silent and deserted, but
well lighted by the moon. AS they went
down Tenth street nothing could be heard
but the clanking Of the cap:ive's chains as
he strobe after Thieler and Puck. They
went to Bloomfield street and on to Newark
avenue. They turned down Newark
avenue, and were going peaceably along
when right ahead of them at railroad
street was the North Hudson County Ele-
waited railroad. They had got to within
twenty yards of the structure when a train
| came by. Prince didn't like it. He gave
his big ears a couple of flaps, elevated his
trunk. gave long and shrill trumpet blast,
| turned on his shackled heels and fed
Thieler and Puck were taken completely
| by surprise, and their hooks few out of
| their hands. Before they could recover
| them Prince was half block away. He
was galloping as we'll as his chains would
permit, and was trumpeting like a whole
| company of buglers. Several horses at
tached to milk wagons were in the street,
| but they did not remain there. They all
| started on a bee line for the northern part
of the state. At the front of the procession
| going down Newark avenue was George
Brown, Reiche's colored coachman. He had
armed himself with long elephant hook in
case an emergency should rise. When
Brown saw that Prince had escaped he ran
| after him with his long hook in his hand
He soon caught the elephant and ran UP TO
him to catch him with the hook. Prince
turned and let his trunk fly with such force
at the colored mans stomach that the man
went flying over against the front of a
grocery, where he lay on the pavement I'M
| conscious.
AS soon as Mr.. Reiche saw his coachman
knocked out with a blow below the belt his
anger arose, and he determined to take an
| active hand in the row. He picked up the
long hook which had fallen from Browns
hand and Dol lily charged at the elephant.
Mr.. Reiche is SO rething of a swell, and, not
thinking that he would be called upon to do
anything but superintend the shipping of
his animals. he had put on a pair of light
check trousers, light overcoat, silk bat,
and pair of patent leather shoes. But the
thought that he might ruin his fine clothes
did not cause him to hesitate He waded
Though the mud and grabbed Prince with
| his hook. He caught him in the jaw, and
the elephant gave howl of rage and pain
| aud turned into an open lot, where
he proceeded to yank Mr.. Reiche around
as ii he was practicing a new tackle for a
| college football match. Reiche clung to his
hook, and finally, with the assistance Of
| Thieler and Puck, succeeded in getting
| Prince into corner and keeping him there.
| The next thing done was to shorten Princes
chains, so That he would be still less free in
his movements. When this had bean ac-
complished they drove and pulled the ele-
plant out into the street again, and with a
good deal of trouble pers Iadsd him to 90
quietly under the dreaded elevated road.
After passing this the party turned down
Henderson street, Reiche with his long hook
in the elephants cheek, and Thieler and
Puck with their short ones in his ears
The trumpeting of the elephant and the
shouts of the men made a tremendous
racket, and in every window along the
route was head, in some instances sur
mounted by nightcap. Hoboken was get
ting excited.
They had got to within few yards of
the Delaware, Lackawauna and Western
railroad trestlework at Sixteenth street
when train came rattling by. Again
Prince lifted his trunk and trumpeted. and
again he wheeled and started back the way
he had come. He easily wrenched himself
away from the hooks of Thieler and Puck.
but he had more difficulty with the long
one in Mr.. Reiche'S hands Tie animal i'm.
porter held on, and away he and Prince
went in close race for Newark avenue.
They reached there, and then Prince
paused and devoted himself to Mr.. Reiche
for few moments. He charged on him SO
savagely that Mr.. Reiche was forced to
drop the hook and flee for his life. Prince
kept close after him and drove him up on
a porch in front of small frame house.
When the elephant found that he could not
catch Mr.. Reiche he caught hold of one of
the posts which held up the porch and tried
with all his strength to tear it down He
| shook the house so that Mr.. Reiche was
glad to Chamber over the railing at the end
of the porch and retire to a safe distance.
1t was getting along toward O'Clock in
the morning now, and many workmen had
paused on their way Co their work to see
the row. They all kept at good distances
from the scene of hostilities, however.
''Tli give IS for bale hoakm shouted
Mr.. Reiche to the crowd. Somebody threw
one to him. and he picked it up and pluckily
tackled the enraged elephant again. This
time he caught the hook on Princes lower
lip. The bale hook was very snarp. and it
went right through the lip aud stuck out at
the lower side. The elephant beloved
with rage and pain, and the blood spurted
| in n great Strparn from his xvo,,nA onA