A terrible account of a man’s death in Uganda from an infuriated elephant is told, according to a story from Nairobi. A young chemist at Jinja went on an elephant expedition. He encountered a herd of five beasts, and laid down his gun to photograph them, when an elephant through the bush behind, seized him in his trunk and dashed him against a tree, breaking it. It then tittered him against the stump of the tree. The man crept away, but the elephant charged him again and kneeled down on his body, after which he picked him up in his trunk and hurled him away into the long grass. The injured man lay for two hours before he was found and taken to hospital at KampaJa, where he died.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18546, 21 August 1928, Page 9
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