The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-17
Killed by Elephant in Columbia
Last Week.
EE TEASED THE BABY
And Was PlsyfulIy Knocked Down by
1t, and Tsen Big "Queen" Becane
EGraged, Kaelt On Him aud
Drove Tusks Into His


hardy venturing, against strict ord.
ers, to take liberties with the ele.
phants, 3 white isborer with the G 1le
circus was knocked down Wednesday
\ afternoon by the infant elsphsnt,
''Chief, ard then attacked with knees
and trsks by the adult female Gle
phant, @ :een," dying st the Colun
bis hosp al three hours later from
two gaping wounds and from inter.
nal irj1ries.
The three elephants. Queen, "
''BSbe" and Chief" we're tethe.e6 Il
the nersgerie tent at Nensa's, auc
the unfortunate man, Gordon OF Coz.
ham, stIc!trg past, commenced &c
tease tie smallest. There Is nc
s:yic.er rule IN circus life than that
elept ants are tricky and must On &c
account be approached, much less
touched: bg anybody other than tbs
trainers, and Gordon knew this rule
as well So scycrs connected with the
show, huS il his duties as seat nsn
he becan.e accustomed 10 the e!e
pasDts and through familiarity &C
qus.ed fatal contempt.
Ncre OF tie higher class circus peo
pie, who might have ordered him
away, vas about the tent, and the
first that anybody knew was whe1.
the desperate man screamed in sgony,
snd The Other attendants rushed to
the srct, to fr6 G,:dcn pinned to the
grUu1c 6 'ytcg on lis lace, while pon-
Gercus @ ,cen krelt upon him and re.
peateoIs Grove her cruel, though blunt
tuSks into his thigh ard SIDE. Wtth
pclss and iron goa6s she was beater
CT, Sn6 when her trainer came up
followed Kim outside, pacing plscidls
alocg, 6appiDg her ears, as If she hao
not Just crashed The lie out OF a hui
nan seiEg.
An arhularce hastily summoned
carried tee mSn, who hald previously
hsG biz external wounds. grest: gap
irg lacsrstion in the beast and
thigh, dressed with irst sid bsudages,
to the Coluntis hospital. BE was o1s.
turbed SIS little IS possible, the circus
phys.cisn and the hospital surgeon
realizing that his lie hung by
thread. He vas tenderly placed on
tie ssretcher and rem owed in the sans
attitude in which be was fcu-d ly.ce
e1tenoe6 on his face with enciIc!lcg
s,ns protecting his bead. An opera
tio1 perforned st the hospital prcyei
unavs,nrg against the serious interns
Injuries which probably resulted fion
the blew O. Chtet's TURKS. ard tht
man died in tie hospital about tbrse
arc 8 quarter hours s.tSi the ercount-
O. ~itn the elephants.
His body was prepared for burial st
the undertaking establishment OF
Nessrs. Mccormick & Pletscher, the
circus management paying al the
bills. An effort to ascertain bis real
NINE sic the address OF relatives
proved fiuisless. The nan was OF
the fos.ing, nomad class sttached to
every circus. He came up and asked
for q job, somewhere, and wss put to
work, no questions being asked. Hs
seemed to have no friends and Ger
rainly no ccl f 1ants.
Oae, workman, a canvssman, had 3
vague iGea that bis name was George
Gordon and that he lived in San Fran,
cisco, in the distant days when he had
g home. There being small prospect
OF relatives cls.nlng the body, 1t was
buried this morning in lot at Elm.
wood cemetery, which WIS purchased
by the circus management. a neat
cssket enclosed the nsngled BODY and
it vas put away decently and rever-
entity, although no fornsl funeral SER
vice was read.
Gcr6cn, or Gerhan, OF Graham, was
spparanaly thirty.6ve years OF age,
slender and quick Of movement. His
cor pls Ken vas swarthy and his
speech mixture Of cockney and Bow.
cry brcgue. Apparently the typical
street eamin Of Mulberry Bend OF the
water front grown into S starved, cl
gsrette. stunned counterfeit Of man.