The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-11

man go out to a nearby saloon, and had
sneaked in to infuriate the elephant. AS
my back was toward him | did not know
of his entrance. The first thing | heard
was a direful wall from the organ, ana
the sounds were yet echoing through the
building when the unsympathetie elephant
had but a single chain to break, and ne
was upon the boy before the latter could
move With twist of his trunk he
caught up his t0rmentor, and with
swing of his head he sent the body sew
eral feet through space against the bars
of lions cage. The lad was dead before
he rolled on the floor. I knew that there
must be an outbreak. but a dozen men
could not have prevented it. ! started
for the door having the whole length OF
the building to traverse, but before I
had gone half way ell the elephants ex-
cept 'TipDo' were loose and trumpeting
with rage or fear 1t was like the break
ing of a dam. The big beasts began
striking right and left with their trunks
and fighting each ether as well, and il
wasn't minute before the .rhinSceroses
and buffaloes Were loose The cages of
the tigers came first. The elephants lift
ed them on high ana brought them down
with a smash, ana the liberated tigers
went right to business Within six or
seven minutes from that mouth organ
wall almost every beast and animal in
that house wes loose 0ud fighting
1T was pandemouum illustrated on the
stage. Insensihly | backed UP toward
'Tippo,' and the first thing I knew he had
his trunk around me- l yelled out. believ-
ing | was dead man, but he simply
hauled me back between his fore legs and
released his hold. What happened in the
neXtLen minutes | can hardly remember.
Two or three of the elephants came
charging down on 'Tippo,' but he fought
them off lion tried to get at me- BUT
4szI-r n
melee going on. a tiger sprang upon the
elephant, to be shaken off ard wolf [
in alongside Of me and whined with fear
Tfppo' wasn't getting his fair share
of the fun, however. Above him and twelve
feet from the floor was a cross-beam At
er knocking over buffalo which came
charging down. he reached for me wi;
his trunk and hauled me out and lifted me-
up Owing to the way he griDped I
couldn't quite reach the beam, but that
man-hater reared himself up and only let
go of me when l was safe. Then his
chains went snap! snap! and he was FIRE a
TO take a hand in. He was crack-a- jack
Here was a chance to work off his bile
and he just did knock seven bells out IF
everything he came across. The awful
racket reached outside ears. of course, bur
no man dared venture leyCn I
| the door. The beasts had to lie
felt to fight it out amcng
themselves. and the riot lasted for the best
part OF an hour. l had fine view OF it
all from my perch aloft. Two or three
| times some of the elephants seemed n
clned to reach for me, and now and then
lion or tiger would crouch for a spring,
but as a matter of fact l was not interfer-
ed with. The row finally ended by mutual
sagreement. That is, every hing which
could fight had had enough Of fighting,
! and it was a woful spectacle for the men
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the living. One elephant out of the troop
had been gored to death, and all others ex-
| cept 'Tippo had been badly mauled. OF the
| buffaloes only one was living. Several OF
the smaller animals, and one or two lions
| and tigers had been killed, and one of The
rhinoceroses had an eye gouged out It
was a heavy financial loss to the house, as
| you can easily figure, and the unfortuna re
| adventure lost us a goodly number of va
| table ORDERS.
"Of course, l felt more than grateful TO
'Tippo for what he had DONE and hoping
the incident had made a change in his
| feelings as well / started in to be better
after. when he met me off
my guard he made blow at me
which would have knocked my head off
had I not seen it coming. A month Ia 'er
we sold him to the proprietor of a French
| circus. but after he had killed a couple of
men he was sold TO an American, and aft
| er being on the road for years he final
ly found his way into Central Park. First
and last "Tppo killed at least twenty
men. and he was bad elephant from the
day of his capture to the hour of his death.
Nevertheless. he had saved my life, and
| it hurt mesto learn of his death. 1t was
miserable taking off for such a grand old
| fighter. Had he belonged to a rajah CT
India he would have been turned loose in
| an enclosure with half a dozen tigers and
given little bit of a show. The beasts
! would have been to many for him in the
end, but with trumpet sounding and head
| erect ne would have gone down into bat
! tie and added another page to his record