The sun., 1893-06-14
Ell PERK1Ns,s sronr OF TIE CIRCUS.
It Was n Real Circns and It Is n Readable


story.
| In PENNSYLVANIA, June 1.-THE other day.
| away out in Oregon. the newspapers all had
| long pathetic kilograms about the shocking
| wreck OF n circus. They said seventeen car
| loads Of beautiful tigers. leopards. elephants.
| snakes. ostriches. camols. and fifty lovely
| spotted ponies and trick horses left Clear
| field. Pa. with the light-hearted circus riders
| and clowns. When the train came down tho
| mountain into Altoona it got away from the
| engineer. and In moment 1t went fifty miles
an hour to destruction. Clowns and bareback
riders and bears and monkeys and camels
wcro piled in n heap. and the poor circus man
was ruined. The wounded lcopards. lions.
and monkeys took to the woods, tho fright
enod birds flew away. and when they pulled
off the wreck they couldn't tell the balloons
from the clowns nor the big snakes from the
elephants trunks. Tears rolled down the
checks OF poor Maine. tho circus man. for the
work OF u lifetime was destroyed and all hone
was gone. 1 found myself thinking Of that
dered II he would eyer 10 hnppy again. 4
dead animals scattered through fields and
woods and the poor circus people stranded
WeYii. today S'ii got the sequel to the story.
and 1t has made me glad. l saw this same
' na whe S Sane IT tic % Wrecked manager s Proud
lysmrveyed his show. happy man again;
so aaieklyf" ask ed the Altoona hotel Keeper.
~, We'll he ssid, the next morning after
the circus man In tears. rs..,,
can we DO Il for they nsked
haven't even hope. All can is to bury my
poor animals, put ny wounded circus men IN
children at 'Xshtabula % I'm in bad luck. The
Vet spring hHs been h hHyo .stsn ssyen
them. must abandon everything; Before,I
SSnd fs the will Be snasa ds and
ruin npon ruin and then. with tears In his
eyes. eye & he went on dressing the broken legs OK
But yop won't have t. commence suit
aoRn sp naSs "na
iors ths train stnrtea S hsp
now We tHn Put yoIT feet % rEht off,
the circus man In astonishment
So Yes, we'll help you out"
mansled circus mon to Altoona Ioardns
houses and drew the wrecked circus wagons
to repairing them. Then they handed the be- be-.
wildered circus man $4,000 in casn. Tears
s hand ana PCsE they sRy S
vas In the telegraph office tclegrephlng to
to ossSs hsso and and
snakes. The circus men we'll enough to travel
bd into tno woods a. and
heifer and captured u bear. The bal oons
came back when they got hungry. 4 hycna
lions head OH OF before he Would Yy move. neu one on
elephant was under tho wreck. He was still.
out he raised himself W. Erunted, nappeh his
ears. and went to eating hay. The snakes
athsr al aroHnd tb% In the wreck as they
like dummies They were utterly discouraged
and disgusted.
When asked Mr.. Maine. ns, tho circus pa
raded by to-day, how he felt. he said:
!" I'm happy man. l always was n temper
ance man. and every man in my show is Il tee-
otaler. and the Altoonaites will tell you that
hey have never heard one OF us swear We
deserved good treatment and the Ponnsyl-
,a mia road has treated us like gentlemen.
they say a gentleman will never give pain
Ind that n saint will always give pleasure
Ind say-why damit, I say-the Pennsyi-
'ania Railroad Is gentleman and q saint"
ELI PERKINa