The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-05-13
ELEPHANT LOOSE.
Letter Received Gives Vivid De-
scription Of Terror.

California. telling the story of the
great elephant hunt Which cause such
a sensation there some time ago. The
newspaper reports were not alto
gether correct according to the
statement. Following is the account
Of the trouble:
The elephant story YOU read was
not en- .irelv correct, for the woman
was not killed in Glenwood Court,
but several blocks away. Glenwood
Court had its share Of adventure,
however, and | missed it, for | was
at Mr.. Cages that day doing some
typewriting for him. When ! re-
\ turned to the office at about 4 80
II p. m. | found the whole town in an
uproar. A short time before that
Cousin Louis pronounced Louie)
was standing at the corner of the
Glenwood block assisting a lady into
street car, whom he looked up and
saw, to his amazemcnt, as you may
imagine. an elephant coming out Of
the Glenwood barber shop, which IS
next door to our office. lie said he
wouldn't have been a bit more sur
prised to see a sea serpent in the
same environment, and he wondered
for an instant If he were in his
right mind re had forgotten that
there Was circus in town He aft
erward heard 4 small boy on the
street relating what happened next
in these words Then the elephant
went across the street and stuck his
bill right through the big music
store window and smashed it all %
pieces" 1t was before the elephant
came TO Glenwood that the lady was
killed. 1t broke d window at the
. Glenwood. and when one of the
guests. Mr.. Chapman, tried to head II
off he found himself precipitatcd TO
the ground With great suddenness.
and he said afterward THAT it looked
to him like the tallest elephant he
ever saw. He would doubtless have
been killed if a circus man had not
come mp and diverted the elephants
attention BY shooting him--with q
revolver that disturbed him but did
not injure him much. After M.
Cbapman's escape Miss Alice Miller
came into the court, and not reaiiz
ing that an elephant running
amuck" is quite a different creature
from one in circus, she said to the
circus man. "Why don't YOU take
him away? He has broken one win
dow already The man, already
exasperated and ont Of breath.
shouted as loudly as he could: go
into the house, fool. ] have just
saved one life" He came around
and apologized after the trouble was
over, but Miss Alice had decided in
the meantime that he was quite ex-
cusable. There was young lady
sitting in swing in the court. and
she was about to run, but the circus
man told her to keep still, and she
obeyed The elephant passed near
enough to touch her dress, but paid
no attention to her.
It was when the elephant found
himself cornered in the court, with
the man shooting him from behind,
that he entered the back door of the
barber shop. with great detriment
10 the door; he then passed through
the shop. everybody fleeing before
him, and out of the front door to
Main street, where Louis saw him
first. Louis interviewed the BARRIERS
afterward and one of them said It
was the closest shave they ever
had Another said he felt like the
darkey that was attacked by bull,
who sank down praying, "Oh Lord,
throw me a tree"
Mr.. Morrison asked me what l
would have done If had been in the
office and the elephant had come
through here instead of the barber
shop. and told him should prob
ably have felt like the darkey too.
The music store people still have
their window boarded up. and over
ii IS bif canvas sign. THE tthen
a picture of an elephant) didn't get
all our pianos but he lowered the
price on some of them" which
strikes me as being quite like Chi
cago enterprise.
The Associated Press was inclined
TO doubt the elephant story at first
wanted to know If It was an aver
Using scheme Of the Glenwood, the
circus, or the Standard Oil company,
but when they learned that there
were two people killed they decided