Show ELEPHANT STAMPEDES APOLITICAL A-POLITICAL CONVENTION Practical Joker Turns Animal Loose in Iowa Republican Meeting and Causes a Panic Fairfield laThe Republican convention con-vention In hesslon hero the other day broke up with a stampede when a large elephant weighing several tons and trumpeting furiously suddenly squeezed through the wide double doorway and I began stalking down tho convention hall toward the presldlnc officer The elephant was the property of a visiting showman and had been dressed up with a large O 0 P banner across Its hack and brought to the convention hall by a practical Joker But this fact did not Impress itself all at once on the delegates Immediately there was a panic Men rushed madly for tho windows and leaped for their lives Several were seriously injured and among hem James Billings a stanch Repub lican of this section Mr Bllllncs was III the rear of the hall when the elephant entered unit was first brought to a realisation of the monsters nres race by feeling the hot breath of the beast on the back of his neck Krlfihtened half out of his wits he made a mad rush for the wlmlo with the elephant following slowly In v the wake At the window he stopped not n second hut literally rolled Mm self out Ho landed on his sldo on the hard concrete walk below and Buffered the fracture of his right 1111I He was generally bruised about tho body bodOtber Other delegates were forced to the same manner of egress within fivo minutes the convention cleared of the delegates hall was and the ea Pliant left in compete possession Some of the more hardy did not re main behind thinking to conquer the nvnder In som maImer but these too were sent flying from the wlnw S I ttV I V akr k N I IIIE ELEPHANT CAUSED A pMUC AMONG THE DELEGATES when the elephant lifting up III I trunk sent a column of water plaYing It play-Ing wen t in their direction They drenched as well as frightened whet they landed on the concrete walk below low l |