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Show ELEPHANTS ESGftPE HUGE BEASTS FROM CIRCUS CAUSE SENSATION IN AN ILLINOIS TOWN. Nine Escape From Keepers and Cause Serious Injury of Two Persons, Besides Be-sides Smashing Summer Kitchens Kitch-ens and Destroying Gardens. Danville, 111. Sovoral persons wcro Injured and property dnrnaged to the amount of several thousand dollars when eight bulls and one female olo-phant olo-phant bolonglhg to a circus stampeded stamped-ed .here on Wednesday. After escaping, the elephants moved for some tlmo in a bunch and then separated. They stopped for nothing oxcept brick and stone buildings. Small frame structures, coal sheds, fences nnd trees in their path were pushed nsldo, turned over or uprooted. At the home of Wm. Miller, throe elephants ele-phants found there was not sufficient room for them to pass between the summer kitchen and residence and pushed the kitchen aside, badly frightening tho persons within. , At tho home of Joseph Peobles, after overturning a shed and killing a horse, ono of tho animals attacked Peebles and hurled him ngnlnst the side of the house. Ho Is now in a crltcal condition. Barney O'Nell was thrown from a wagon whon tho herd of elephants dashed down a sldo street aud In front of his team. F. Krnbbe, a keeper, who was assisting In taking three bulls to tho cars after their capture, cap-ture, was hurled against the sldo of a barn nnd seriously Injured. Other persons were slightly Injured during the stampede. Moro than ono hundred homos" wero visited by the elcphnnts nnd tho damage will prob-ably prob-ably aggregate ?9,000 or $10,0.0. |