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| Chambersburg Public Opinion/u>, 09-September-1921 |
The Al G. Barnes Circus featured the elephant Tusko. He turned up in the newspapers back in May, 1922. "Alice in Jungleland" sounds like fun.
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| New York Evening World, 17-May-1922 |
Terrible Tusko;
Huge Elephant,
On Big Rampage
Tosses Keeper 30 Feet
Knocks Over Autos,
Pushes
Down Barn and What Not
TACOMA, Wash., May 17. -- "Tusko," described as the largest
elephant in captivity, is reported in
a special despatch to the Ledger to-day as peacefully consuming his fodder with a circus at Bellingham
Wash., after an afternoon, night and
morning of rampage that stretched
for thirty miles from Sedro Wooley,
Wash.
Tusko hurled his keeper, H. Hendrickson, thirty feet in the air. Several of Hendrickson's ribs were broken. Tusko proceeded through the streets of Sedro Wooley, capsizing three automobiles and turning a dance into a riot. Then he headed for the hills.
Flattened fences and orchards and calls from excited farmers and loggers betrayed Tusko's line of flight to several hundred men and boys in pursuit. At one logging camp Tusko uprooted three telephone poles. A farmer, looking out of an upper story window, gazed upon the elephant's mighty back, hunched in an unsuccessful effort to overturn the house.
A barn proved less stanch and after breaking in Tusko ate his fill and then proceeded onward.
At dark, Monday, the several hundred pursuers made camp in the woods, taking up the trail at daybreak yesterday.
It was in a valley known as "The Garden of Eden" that Tusko apparently returned to normalcy, as calmly and as suddenly as the spirit of rampage had possessed him. Sauntering up to two other elephants that had been included among, his pursuers, Tusko meekly permitted his recapture.
Tusko hurled his keeper, H. Hendrickson, thirty feet in the air. Several of Hendrickson's ribs were broken. Tusko proceeded through the streets of Sedro Wooley, capsizing three automobiles and turning a dance into a riot. Then he headed for the hills.
Flattened fences and orchards and calls from excited farmers and loggers betrayed Tusko's line of flight to several hundred men and boys in pursuit. At one logging camp Tusko uprooted three telephone poles. A farmer, looking out of an upper story window, gazed upon the elephant's mighty back, hunched in an unsuccessful effort to overturn the house.
A barn proved less stanch and after breaking in Tusko ate his fill and then proceeded onward.
At dark, Monday, the several hundred pursuers made camp in the woods, taking up the trail at daybreak yesterday.
It was in a valley known as "The Garden of Eden" that Tusko apparently returned to normalcy, as calmly and as suddenly as the spirit of rampage had possessed him. Sauntering up to two other elephants that had been included among, his pursuers, Tusko meekly permitted his recapture.
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