Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-09-26

was Occa6lOne0 at the snow
grounds east of Flat River last
Friday morning by the discovery
of a large snake, which for some
unknown reason was left by the
Ringing Bros. circus, which occu-
pied the ground the previous day.
The huge reptile, which is known
in "snakeology" as a Python, is
about IA feet long and weighs IS
or so younds. It was found by a
foreigner, who was on the grounds
early Friday, walking about,
thinking he might find a few lost
shekels, as a large amount of mon
ey had changed hands on show
day. He was attracted to a large
coffee sack, which apparently con-
tanned something alive. To salts
fly his curiosity he cut the string
and opened the sack. His curios-
ity was quickly changed to fright,
for as soon as the dangerous look
ing reptile started to ooze out of
the sack the foreigner on double
quick time "oozed" for home. A
short distance from the grounds he
met Dan Lynn, Jr., aged 10, and
Steve Patrick, aged IA, and told
them of his discovery and warned
them to stay away. The boys,de-
spite their youth, were not terrified
by the foreigners story and con-
tinued their journey to the show
grounds, and Immediately took
the snake into captivity. They had
little trouble getting it back into
the sack and took it to the Federal
Lead Company's barn, where the
Lynn boys father, Dan Lynn, ST.,
is employed. At the barn an eff
fort was made to transfer the
snake to another sack. Three men
with various instruments tried to
put the snake in another sack, but
it showed remarkable strength
and could not be handled. Final
ly the men gave up their efforts
and allowed the snake to 60 back
to its favorite sack, and without
the coffee sack it cannot be hand
led. 1t has been exhibited at the
Airdome at Flat River and the COT
fee sack has to be taken along as
a special inducement to get it back
into captivity. The manager of
the circus was notified by wire of
the finding of the sna Ike, but made
no reply to the message. Many
who saw the snake inside the cir
Gus say the woman who had charge
of the snakes had great difficulty
in handling this one and some be-
lieve it was pursosely left behind.
-Fdrmington Neacs.
Lamont Bros. Circus, which was
in Ironton on September 18th, met
with a most disastrous wreck on
the Frisco railroad between Will
Evansville and Puxico on Tuesday
of last week. Here is the story of
the wreck as told by the Green
Vile Sun.-"Two coaches belong
ing to Lamont Brothers Show and
filled with show people, trained
ponies, dogs and other animals,
went through a trestle on the Hunt
er branch of the Frisco, near Chao-
MIA, at 3 o'clock Tuesday after
noon. Harry Lamont, one of the
proprietors of the show, and an
other man whose name we did not
learn, were killed and about 40
other persons were injured. Some
of them including one woman, are
thought to be fatally hurt. The
two cars contained something near
As people, only n of whom es-
capped without more or less serious
injury. Physicians were summon
ed from .Williamsville, Chaonia
and Puxico, and d relief train was
sent out from Cape Girardeau
which conveyed them to that city.
Several horses and ponies were
killed, including six heavy draft
horses. People who we're on the
train say that the cars were de-
rallied before reaching the trestle
and that the ends of the ties were
broken off when the trestle was
reached, allowing the cars to turn
over. They dropped a distant OF
nearly 30 feet, both being COM
pletely demolished. The scene
Immediately following the crash
was frightful. The cries of the in
jured people and the piteous
groans of the distressed horses
were mingled with the frantic
yelping of dogs and the elephant
in extricating itself from the
wreckage trampled the camel to
death and the trumpeting of the
frightened beast was added to the
{ general din. The elephant, after
getting over it's scare, was able to
eat a few bales of hay for supper
and was apparently uniniured.
The show had exhibited at Green
Vile on Monday and was billed
for Puxico Tuesday. The train
was made up Of an engine, the
two cars, a baggage car and a day
coach. The trestle gave way under
the weight OF the show cars. The
engine and the two Frisco coaches
; remained on the track and none
of the passengers or train crew
were injured"
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