Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-05-18
ELEPHANT ATTACKS
PASSENGER TRAIN
a Fight to the Death on Rail.
way Line in Central
India.
LOCOMOTIVE is VICTOR
Engineer Tells of a Thrilling Expert.
ence With Big Tuskcr on a
Wild Midnight
Run.

Of the ChOtg- Nagpur railroad of IN
dia the other day noticed big framed
picture in an Obscure corner. 1t seem
cd different from others on The walls,
which We're mere designs of bridges and
locomotives with plans and gradients
on blue linen,
lie walked over and bebeld six pho
tographs, seeming TO tell am interest
ing story They Were mounted 10
gether in one large frame. The visitor
could see an elephant and train 90
the track
Here" he thought, lis something
worth investigating. lll ask one of The
directors about it,
lie did SO, and this is the story the
director told
we are humdrum people, he said
"and care little FOR matters outside our
freight OF sugar and cotton, silk and
timber and pilgrims. But those pho
tographs record am unsual event.
"One September night the mp mail
left Chakardharpore for Nagpur at
$50 There is a big railroad commu-
nifty here, and the train was well found
iu every respect
There were three or four passenger
coaches and some freight ears full Of
grain Uuseeds, stone, lime, lac hides,
silk. cocoons and sabhol grass There
We're also q few pilgrims ON their way
20 Puri the city of ggernaut-chief-
ly fighting Khola,
"All went well until GoiIkera station
W. l'aSscI a. 10. ms - ".'s ol va
peCially for railroad sleepers.
Between Guiikera and Nonharpur
stations our line enters district
known as SaraUda of the Seven Hum
dred Hills These hills form the wa
tershed between The rivers l'rahmnce
anu SuDaNi lAa'
In wild Ccu1try.
''fhoy arc heavily ;iwtcloa and the
whole country is as Wild as Il can he.
It is. iu fact, one vast mas &C jungle,
which extends almost Coalruoue'y
from The southern portion ot the STATE
Of Koonehur oa The south 10 the edge
of the Ranln plateau ou tle north.
-Four miles gum Goikara the line.
as YOU can see OH ,Hat nau ny.. there,
passes tLrolEl The Saranaa tuHay..
and beyond lia ie a pan a5sp oc aia
spotted deer and saublur. From tie
tunnel the graon i@ ia i'a coMnW EI
20 the h"r' hIleE' 'A the ,3'7.,e
OF "h!c" Is = h'aA lI",,e1 o...t e'.-
ing la ou'lhls. 'u" ".. mas 20
-, YOU n"l
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'i"l" ..l lls usSA ,lI't rec.
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grace al % i,,t'A ~ h@". J., vas =
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Ioose Eiaii'e' ".'' tioE ''. ,'' s.et.
peu Snoi on '-e very ~, o. 81 na!'" a'
4eet hl-h.
was mos LoiNGHa'e l" IF'NH
i'IilN LN 'tt Dsei' .S'''.7 'L'" ~ "4S va.
ESet. SUI 30 w eHSl.e '."H u" - -suO"ci
IeI' lne II"CH ti''" cue ""S PiuHEeH
up 10 iel "A'oS III So'' s"' ~ @I-u 'ooNs
s'o9l7'
so' "oN y g''u tLVi'S" ny N"S u8C"
70 70 see what uAllasr AlH gee" cone.
our caIs' lnOie"!hs 'Ha' or MF.
,, taulaS, Ute otPe,y ~, ONO re Suiei'"-
,.l,. .e'lGG''' "lie $50 reI'I'E." ana al
Drake van was padiy SihaShen' as arse
"tlS olc ol IHe tAiIu C'"sS cars t"4.'ai"-
ms PAsl liI'S'
Making investigator.
Mr.. Faulds joined me- and SO ala
our guard. We Thought n first there
must le cattle on the line but We could
see aothing. We procured lauters and
carefully examined the engine sud
denly | heard Mr. Faulds cry
why. what's this"
HE held in his hama a strip of elo-
phant skin. We piled our lauters this
way and :hat, and soon saw the huge
telltale pads everywhere. ana We
found the spot where our cnemv had