Elephants Stampeded.
An explosion which occurred at One of the storage tanks of the Standard Oil Go., near Riversdale, California, stampeded a. herd of elephants attached to a travelling circus, which was about to begin a performance. The largest elephant ran a- mile, and then entered tho court of Glenwood Hotel, whore it knocked down and trampled to death Miss Ella Gibbs, a deaconess of the Congregational Church engaged in missionary work among the cithnese and Japanese population. It gored and tossed three men, all of whom were seriously injured before it was secured.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 6, 5 August 1908, Page 10
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94Elephants Stampeded. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 6, 5 August 1908, Page 10
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