EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENTS
(Received April 29, noon.)
LONDON, April 28. Two extraordinary accidents are r* ported. An elderly man, while adjusting the chain of his bicycle on a lonely road near Holstebro, Denmark, got his beard entangled in the crank and was unable to free himself. Another cyclist met him crawling back wards, dragging his bicycle, and together they carried the bicycle until they met a man with a sharp knife, who severed the beard. . ■ _ .
The second mishap occurred in Calcutta. A bh-ton elephant, on which a mahout was" mounted, fell,from a sling in which it was being loaded on to a ship. The elephant crashed on to the wharf, sprang up '-trumpeting, and began to run away limping, scattering a terrified crowd. The mahout miraculously escaped serious injury, and declares that the elephant saved his Ufa by deliberately rolling away from him.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 9
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