The evening world., 1894-05-11
LII \ Qns
TIP DEAD
At LAST.
The Man.Killing Elephant
SuCCumbed at 419 This
Afternoon.
D0sED AGAIN WITH POISON,
Capsules Of Cyanide of Potas-
SUM Mixed with Bran
and Fed to Him.
VIOLENT DEATH STRUGGLES.
Men Armed with Rifles Stood by to
Finish Him with Bullets
IT Necessary.
VIOLENT DEATH STRUGGLES.

r At 4.19 o'clock this afternoon Tip, the
vicious elephant in Central Park. died
from the effect of poison administered
to him by Drs. Huntington and Allen,
the official executioners.
An hour previous to his death he was
given a dose Of bran containing thirteen
small capsules and two large capsules of
cyanide Of potassium and he swallowed
all.
Immediately afterwards he began to
shake and tremble and soon went into
commissions.
He broke the martingale and also the
chnir on his hind legs.
There was the greatest excitement.
Men stood by with rifles ready to shoot
him in case he got any more liberty.
Their services were not required, how
ever, for the huge beasts struggles
quickly ended. and as the poison began to
work he fell to the ground and died.
At 8 o'clock this afternoon Drs. Hunt
ington and Allen, the official execu-
TONERS of Tip. the vicious elephant in
Central Park, that the huge
pachyderm was evidently ~succumbing
to the poison administered to him early
In the day.
Tip had refused to eat a carrot loaded
with poison this morning. but he
crunched the vegetable bolus with his
huge jaws II then spat it out. 1t was
said at the time that some of the poison
had gone down into his stomach, but for
a time he showed no effects.
Then suddenly he began to weaken in
his hin quarters and DIR. Allen an
nounced that paralysis was one of the
symptoms Of the poison.
Supt. Smith, of the Menage~ie, caused
a line to be drawn about the elephant
house. and not even the reporters who
were present were admitted to the build
inG.
1t was said by the doctors tina the
paralysis appeared to be extending, and
that the huge trunk was affected. Tip
could not move 1t except very little,
when 1t seemed as II he had been trying
to do 20.
DR.. Allen said the dose given to the
elephant in the morning would ultimately
end his life. and that the end was not
Tar Off. II will die In about an hour
was the doctors prediction. made about
o'clock.
At 8 o'clock this morning Drs. Hunt
gton and Allen, carrying leather bags
entered ihe elephant-house. Their
knowledge Of toxicology caused them to
be singled out by the Park Commits
sioners to superlntend the administra-
Atom OF the deadly drug which was to
make OF Tip a good elephant. They
nad a little package off cyanide o
potassium, six ounces In all. sufficient to
Gil a regiment of men.
A crowd of .uily one hundred people
aad gathered around the building. Hall
" them were newspaper men, who had
'een detailed to witness the execution.
iark commissioners Clausen. Straus
shn bel arrived shortly after. and the
in.tet Went into the elephant-house ant
,nat the door tight. AT $50 O'Clock the
Nors were opened, and those who had
'asses Were allowed to enter.
commissioners Bell and Straus took
\ ,re + or things, and soon had a rope
nIetched across the wide asphalt pave.
"e"' IN front OF Tips cage.
Was TIN Suspicious?
An this time Tip stood behind his iron,
JARED barrier and swung his trunk
onck and forth. His little eyes twin
'isl and had II knowing look.
.WMsseper snyder looked in and grlnned
Ms only
Snyder refused point-blank to be tn,
~ TO give Tip the poison, so Otto
hVpis, an old animal trainer. who haC
naise OF Tip way back In 1881. was ap
pinted executioner,
iii ,MM was 600 o'clock when Assistan
,upt: Burns handed DR. Horace Allen
Ia Wra'or or the Museum OF Natural His
XN MI d pig carrot, which he had scoope'
,notbbnnu htted with a plug made from
Il 4 Allen took from his bag n packag
|{I ne W NJ poison and poured two ounces o
tarrW hlte powder into the hollowed-ou
md =, me plug was neatly lnserte,
donisshe deadly bolus was handed L
lie Takes the Carrot.
,e mHppis stepped UP to the bars an,
u comms "afrot out to Tip with a wor