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Show Sf IS E El , Fire Near Circus Grounds of Pag Riverside. California, Causes" V Slampcde of Huge Animals. . I ONE WOMAN KILLED. OTHER PERSONS 1X.I URED aj Infuriated Beast Invades Court W of Big Hotel and Guests I Flee in Terror. ItlVKKSllJIS. C:.l.. April .10. As a result of a. fire which started early this afternoon at the Stand anl Oil company's com-pany's storage tanks, a herd of ole-7hants ole-7hants was stampeded. L, .J. Worsley , lies at the City .hospital fatally burned, vK and Miss FJIa Gihbs. a church deacon-ig deacon-ig ess, was fatally injured. A sullen boom which was heard at 1:30 marked the Jn explosion of the large oil lank.. AVors- lc was a driver of the delivery wagon jL$ f rom wliii'Ji the fire was communicated jjjj in the tanks, and was hurled many yards from the spot and was picked up I with his clothing ablaze. The llames spread immediately to the tajiks, which instantly became a mass of flames. circus, three blocks distant, was about io open for , the afternoon performance. per-formance. The explosion and the lire caused the showmen lo lower the. tenls nflT dispersing the crowd which had ass-niibled. The herd of elephants be-iiiWcnmp be-iiiWcnmp uncontrollable and they dashed to nV fthc east side of town, knocking down ;& riViices. outhouses, and despoiling or-i or-i 'chards hint lay in their path. yji ; 1 Many Narrow Escapes, Im , -M-siny Persons narrowly escaped the ppj infuriated animals. In a short time, howevM', all biif the largest of the elo-Z elo-Z tphams wore rounded up. The leader Iof the herd then chauged his course jinu entered the center of the city, one futile distant, lie entered the court of sic, "the Gloiiwnod hotel, one of the famous tiff . hosfelries of t he coast. Miss Gibbs was sj 'in the yard in front of the house. The :n? elephant pinned her against the .house nfi. bi'iween his tusks, threw her i'o (he lh i.'i'f und and trampled upon her. crushing "jjAiie;' chest and inllicling fatal injuries. J5.yThf animal then proceeded to the door--our way, the guests running, panic stride -ajFcn, indoors. D. P. Chapman, a guest thiw'1' -,u house, at templed to swerve the jTViimal from the court. He Avas knocked IpjiWn and had several ribs broken and rocfT-Als otherwise, injured. ?mt Counts Ono More Victim. HUM The beast, crashed through the door. 'I'itf "walked through the barber shop and j!l out on the main streol, crossed the ktsjl street, trashed through the heavv plate-SiiJI plate-SiiJI glass window in a store. Before being rnjinded up at, a downtown public, sla-M sla-M hie. the. animal trampled on another Iji: mao and seriously gored him wilh Ii is VSS tusks. Quo of I he keepers attempted to t-ub-Bj! duo i h animal, but. was hurled over a Clj high fence, sustaining painful injuries, ouj ' 7s"0t unlil four oilier elepliauls were ?H: brought to the stable was the huge "2 beast got ten under control and taken B' to the Vi reus grounds. V P.v this lime (he entire town was in JP an uproar. The ladies of the east, side 'JJf were tifraid to venture into the streets, nJ fearing that the herd had not been tfjf captured. l Tiie tiro at the oil tanks continued Bl throughout the afternoon and G0.000 i gallons of oil was consumed, includint: '3m. the cnnlents of the exploded tanks and V much ca-u- txoods. Two large tanks coaly coa-ly taining a high-grade, iioii-exjdosive oil. ffl escaped I he flames. The oil loss was JSP $7000, and the loss on the buildings is IH $1000. 'Si Miss Gibbs died nf 10 o'clock torn to-rn ni"lit . Miss 1311a Gibbs was a deaconess in IS the First Congrcgatiomilist church of this city. 15c fore corning here, about si three vonis ago eho had been a promi-ai promi-ai nenl worker in the slums in Chicago. IS Since her arrival in Hiverbide she .had g been doing mission work among f.ho 18 " Chinese and .Japanese population and also assisting consumptives who nr- 19 rived here penniless. |