Show DICK RAISED NED The Narrow Escape of n Circus At tuclie nt Kansas City KANSAS CITY Mo June 7Elephant Trainer Joseph Beat and William Chambers Cham-bers superintendent of animals had a exciting time today with Dick n mammoth I mam-moth elephant attached to the Forepaugh I Sells Brothers circus which had just come to town Dick Is an enormous beast with tusks about five feet long and a big around a a good sized sapling Shortly after noon Beatty decided to takeoff around take-off the elephants chains and lead him DiCK seemed to appreciate this by picking pick-ing up a occ pebble and shying It over his head Suddenly without the slightest warning he drK back his big trunk and struck Beatty hi the chest The trainer landed ten feet away a little II I j shaken up but not seriously Injured Before Be-fore he had t me to recover himself Dick was upon him He struck at him with I one of his long tusks but the trainer i slipped to one side so that the huge pieces of Ivory struck the ground on either side of him In the meantime Beatty was j calling bring me a hook The crowd in the tent was by this time stood partly scattered and the remainder stoodHORRIFIED AND HELPLESS A large hook was tossed toward him He burled the point between the elephants eyes This a a general thing Is sufficient suf-ficient to make an elephant cower but It had the opposite effect Dick held his ground In an instant Beatty grabbed a tusk In each hand and swung his feet over the Ivories near the animals mouth The rest of the herd was by this time trumpeting and a general stampede seemed I seem-ed imminent Everybody seemed to be at a loss what to do except one man William Camber Cam-ber He was at the far end of the tent when the trouble began He picked up a hook and started for his friend batty who was still clinging to the tusks Through the herd of excited animals he ran giving each a prod a he went Realizing Real-izing that it WOULD BE DANGEROUS to approach Dick he unfastened Topsy a big female elephant and with her assistance sistance Induced Dick to move to another part of the tent Beatty watched his chance and slipped from his dangerous I position and was soon assisting Topsy and Chambers chained Dick to his post Both Chambers and Beatty have reputations repu-tations for bravery in controlling animals Dick Is 3 years old and has several times before endangered the lives of his keepers endagere te |