Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-15 | Page 1 | Look out for Elephants on Tracks, Rail Men Told in Safety First Message

Look Out for for- Elephants On Tracks Rail Men Told In Safe Safety ty Fj First rs t Message Altitude Blamed for Rampage Ramage of Pachyderms in North North- Northwest North west Big Beasts Revert to Jungle Nature and Capture Is Difficult By THOMAS G WHEELER Copyright 1926 Consolidated Press S Association N ROOK BO B n O 0 Su u H-CAnada's H Canadas Canada's greatest t elephant elephant hunt bunt has taken on dramatic asp aspects A little over ovel over a- a a week ago a cirrus circus s dogs dog's barking bathing sent 14 jungle pachyderms on l a lra ra rampage page and five of them into the densely and an m un- un country around Cranbrook on the edge of the five five- men of oC the ho big searching party ports are o In the hos- hos hospital hos hospital pital Indians Indian are ar out on the traIt trail tracking tho the beasts by their spoor poor An airplane carrying ani- ani animal ant mal trainers trainer Is scouring the court court- try A lone redskin on horseback WIllS was hi Ills his way through the forest only a few tew rout miles out when Wilen sUddenly he ho was wa charged by art The Indian thrown to the tho Ground fled one one wa way the horse tho the other The Th quarry rry took after acter the stallion but soon and Iao up the chase and crash crashed cd Its way ay off oCt Into Inlo ibo tho ha brush The redskin scrambled up the tho th moun moun- moun mountainside and bade back to Cranbrook There ho told a terror stricken story EASY TO FOLLOW It has ha been comparatively comparatively sim- sim pie pl toll following owing tho the spoor but actUal ac- ac actual lust location d mands careful stalking Circus men soon who ho brute brut the original to the lotty hotly altitude say that the ani- ani animals ani inal mals have been thrown n back on 01 their wild rind and have havi grown crown exceedingly e wary Two ot of o the h herd rd ware ere recap recap- tur lured d shortly after aCtor they Itam- Itam ItamI poSed The hos hoso 1055 elephant manIn I trying trying- to curb urb the he hysterical ni crea crea- creatures crea- crea creatures creature tures ture was crushed suffering I broken ribs In advancing the altitude theory In explanation of the e elephants nervousness circus circus cir- cir cus experts that as aa soon lIoon as the tho district was reached tho the ani- ani animals animal mals grew restless especially those of tho the jungle species This they the tho say also caused tho the recent stam stam- stam stampedes at Edmonton and Calgary the be of ot the latt latter r city be- be benG beng nG th the tho second sl In Canada n U BItI J IS DAlI tn th the Edmonton rampage the v vory ry same beasts broke away awa when a small mail dog doir do barked The Tey were finally rounded up on the thi outskirts of oC t the tho o city by one ono of oC o the clowns clown who was as armed with will all br breg bread d l he could carry Trainmen In th the tir Cranbrook dis- dis dis ti were keeping their eyes eye glued Blud luel to the rails ahead for tear of ot a R collision with OnO one ono o of tt ti th giants plant Unique Is the th or et issued IssuM to them cle ele Keep strict watch atch for tor the the- on way right rl w oi y and JC If 1 located report whereabouts on or arrival at at first tint telegraph station