Show TRAIN CRASHES INTO El ELEPHANT Pachyderm I arhy and amI Trainer Are A re Killed Panic Results CHICAGO July 11 fly By The As Associated As- As sedated d Press A A circus elephant and Its trainer were killed half a adoun dozen doun persons injured and six other elephants of or the Wallace Hagenback-Wallace circus were thrown Into a Do wild mId stam stem stampede stampede pede early Sunday when a 3 heavily lly loaded Chicago Aurora Auora Elgin passenger fenger train crashed into the herd of pachyderms as they were being taken from the circus grounds at Aurora Illinois Ono One of or the elephants was knocked to the ground crushing its rider An- An Andra Andra Andra dra Springfield Ill HI under It as the train plowed through the Jungle beasts with Its load d of home home- ward-bound ward circus goers Three of or orthe the elephants red lanterns waving from their teLls tails threw their riders to the ground and stampeded through the streets of Aurora with scores of ot circus in wild pursuit while automobiles and other street traffic hurried for tor cover They were recap recap- recaptured recaptured after a n two-hour two chase WRECK nECK CIRCUS WAGON After plowing through the ele etc elephants elephants the train struck and wrecked v. a heavy circus wagon and smashed in the front end of the fir car of the electric train Cheerful Gardner su superintendent su- su superintendent superintendent of elephants for the cir cir- circus cir cir- cus was thrown to the ground and Ind suffered a of the brain when hen the train struck the beast and his Isis wife tee riding tiding one of ot them was thrown from her perch by the terror- terror stricken pachyderm Two o other circus Fred Wells and Edmont Welsh both of ot otLo Logansport Lo Ind 2nd were severely In Injured In- In InJured Injured and two passengers of the elec eke electric train Elmer Johnson Johnon and Iver Carlson both of ot Aurora were wre hurt Passengers of the train as asell well ell ellas as the elephants were thrown Into Inton n n. panic and rushed rush cd for the doors as the windows were shattered and the front of the train tram collapsed while the trumpeting of the terrified and stam stem stampeding stampeding beasts outside added to the din OBSERVING onSEn MEMORIAL ME By Dy a strange coincidence coincidence- the nag Hag Wallace circus which played for two performances Saturday was wason wason wason on its way l to Chicago to observe e memorial services for 58 fellow fello troup troup- troupers ers era killed In the disastrous train circus-train wreck near Hammond Ind md In June 1918 I Sunday S performers rode to here ID 3 t their Woodlawn cemetery pay pa respect s ts to the memory of or their ther de departed de- de departed departed parted comrades in the shadow of ot the thelIe five lI great granite elephants compos compos- composing composIng composing ing the monument to the dead circus erected by the Showmen's League of ot America |