ELEPHANT SAVES 1000 LIVES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LX, Issue LX, 31 December 1910, Page 2

ELEPHANT SAVES 1000 LIVES.

HOW JUNG BAHADUR SWAM TO | THE lU&s6u.E. The Allahabad Pioneer has published the following story from Agra, dated October 7th:— As there were many wild bazaar rumors afloat about the disaster at the bathing festivities at Sorong, in the Agra Division, I have interviewed the proper authorities and obtained the following particulars. Thousands of pilgrims had camped on a strip of land which had never before been flooded within the memory of the oldest residents. On Sunday night there was a sudden rise in the tide of the Ganges, and the pilgrims were stranded on the spot where they were encamped, which has now become an island surrounded by deep water. The pilgrims who had the presence of mind to link arms and stand up, though immersed chest deep in water, were saved; hut those who ran panicstricken to regain terra firma fell into the deeper stream and were lost. Rescue parties headed by the deputy-col-lector of the locality and the police, arrived on the scene as soon as possible, and with the aid of boats and an elephant, rescued the stranded pilgrims. An account given of the work done by an elephant named Jung Bahadur is most interesting. Jung Bahadur belongs to a rais named Koer Jaswant Singh, who was on a visit to the fair, and his presence was providential. With ropes attached to his trappings the elephant repeatedly swam out to the distressed pilgrims, who would cling on to the ropes, and he landed in safe places. It is estimated that this noble ! animal saved at least 1000 lives. The number drowned is put down at ahout 200, or even fewer, but as the pilgrims had thronged from all parts of India, it is impossible to say how many were really drowned. The collector of Etah and his officers did all they possibly could to help the pilgrims in their misfortune.

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