Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — IS GORED BY MAD ELEPHANT [ARTICLE]

IS GORED BY MAD ELEPHANT

Keeper Rescued Through Heroism of Another Trainer In New York Zoo. New York. —Keeper George Thuman, gored through the thigh and with consciousness fast slipping away from him, crouched in a corner of tbe steelwalled elephant house at the Bronx zoo the otlfer morning and tried with his fleeting wits to match the wits jß| Gunda, the 1 6-year-old bull elephant, gone mad with the beat, and cunningly trying with tasks and trunk to murder the man. Thuman won out over a terrible death, but only through the heroism of another elephant keeper, who risked hia own life under the flailing trunk and longing feet of the enraged animal to drag Thuman away from his peril and thrust him to safety through the bars of the enclosure. Thuman la in a precarious condition.