Show ELEPHANTS ESCAPE HUGE BEASTS FROM CIRCUS CAUSE SENSATION IN AN ILLINOIS TOWN nine escape from keepers and cause serious injury of two persons be sides smashing summer kitchens and destroying gardens danville III several persons were injured and property damaged to the amount ot at several thousand dollars when eight bulls and one female elephant belonging to a circus stampeded here on wednesday after escaping the elephants moved for some time in a bunch and then s separated epa rated they stopped for nothing except brick and stone buildings small frame structures coal sheds forces fences and trees in their path were pushed aside turned over or uprooted at the home ot of wm miller Alf fler three elephants found there was not sufficient room for them to pass between the summer kitchen and residence and pushed the kitchen aside badly frightening the persons within at the home of joseph peebles after overturning ached shed and killing a horse ot of the animals attacked peebles and hurled him against the side of the house ile he Is now la in a cliteal condition barney onell was thrown from a wagon when the herd of elephants dashed down a side street and in front of hla his team P F krabbe a keeper who ivas was assisting in taking three bulls to tho the cars after their capture was hurled against the side of P a barn and seriously injured other persons vere slightly silently injured during tho the stampede more than one hundred homes were visited by the elephants and tho the damage will probably aggregate or 1000 |