CIRCUS ELEPHANTS LOOSE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 12

CIRCUS ELEPHANTS LOOSE

PURSUIT BY INDIANS. TORONTO', August 26. For days three of the ’fourteen elephants with the Sells ,Floto circus have been at. large in the densely wooded mountainous country round Cranbrook, British Columbia. Two or three score of circus employees and Indians got on the trail, hut. it was difficult to get into close touch with tho fugitives. After over a week of freedom, one of the. elephants was captured. Since the hunt began, five men have been injured and are now in hospital, hut in no case are the injuries serious. An aeroplane has been ordered to help in the search. The horses used in the chase are at a disadvantage in the thick timber, and are left hopelessly behind whenever one of the runaways is sighted. So far the elephants have been feeding on wild hay in the meadows and patches of pea vine, which abound in tho wood's around Cranbrook. No such extraordinary order lias ever been issued by a Canadian railway as the one handed to the engine-driver, Frank Sheridan, of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which read: “ Keep a strict watch for elephants on tho right oi permanent way, and, if located, report- their whereabouts on arrival at the first telegraph station.”