The daily Alaskan., 1907-06-12
606en fbe Tram per
 founded.

They were DlIlllnS tue great AlbA way and railroad bridge over the Gun ga river. near Nagpoor, In India, and In this month Of August the scene was as busy a one as could be conceived. The approaches were being filled in by a thousand natives; the lronwork was being pushed along by 800 more direct, ed by English engineers and foremeu; 200 men were unloading the cars of the working trains; 300 elephants, each In charge Of a mahout. were carrying OF dragging beams of wood and gird- CTS of iron. When the steam whistles blew for dinner on this particular day, one Of the uqahouts approached his boss and. after q respectful salanm, said.
 "I have to tell you that my beast Banga has had to be punished often to- day. He Is homeslck and out of tenn per. l have talked kindly to him, I have Coayed and reasoned, but 1t has done no good. He stu defes me. l au afraid that IF I do not let him rest be will make great trouble"
 But there Is no time for rest" re piled the overseer, who was a native himself. "The work must be driven; the bridge must be finished. TOmor TOW your beast may no longer be bomasfck. There can be no rest for him today"
 The mahout drove his elephant to the feeding place and placed food before him. but the beast would not cat. He was offered dalnties, but be refused them. Ths mahout sang to him, prom lsad him a whole months rest when the bridge should be finished, but Ban ga made a rumbllng In hIs throat and would not be placated. His conduct was noticed by other mahouts, and some Of them said:
 He should not go back to work this afternoon. He is dangerous. He will win over our beasts. Hear hlm growI in his throat! The great sahib should be told that there Is danger.
 Word was sent to the engineer in charge Of the works. He was an Eng Hshuau who had lived long ln India and knew the ways of natives and ele- chants. Some of the beasts and their drivers had come 200 miles to work on
 la bridge. It was well known fact hat now and then an elephant got @eslek anl became dangerous if not a.f or for q day or two. The engineer .rH sat out to make that a banner day, md when word came from Banga the ,ralv weat back that the beast was not
 70 ln cxeusel.
 Ban-a rumbleI in his throat and
 w.t.lad bis tail about. and just be arp tue whistles blew for the resump-
 ion of work he raised bis trunk and
 uade wuisuiug noise through it. ..yery other elephant ou the works
 au-uy t.c sound and repeated the sig .3l back.
 "It means dangerr whispered the .aahou.s to each other. but the great .glih hal spoken. and there was no luIHmg back.
 For two hours after dinner the work vent on at high pressure. Every man yas taerA and not an elephant refused .J obey orders. Even BUuga worked better than during the morning. The mah1uts and their bosses had had a vigiIaur eye on the tolling beasts, but as time passed their fears were Quieted.
 Thief and rObber, dost thou not see that Banga Is at wOrk?" demanded a foreman of a mahOut.
 Four elephants twlned their trunks around an iron glrder and lifted 1t from the ground They held it sus- pended for a moment, and then Banga let 20. raised his trunk and blew a trumpet blast But few men there had ever heard the like before, They were men who had hunted the great beast ln his wild state anu had heard the sound from a wounded and enraged el- ephant In thirty seconds a scene Of industry was turned Into hell. Three hundred elephants were trumpeting at once. Nearly 2,COO men were running and shouting. Locomotives and en- zines were blowing whistles of waIn- ing for just one minute, and then the great beasts broke loose, and Banga led them all in his fury. With one blow of bis trunk he killed his mahout; with a second he made 8 corpse of the overseer who had called him 8 thief. Then up and down the long dirt filled approaches the 800 bahemoths raved. They struck men down as fast as they