![]() The man had tried to pet a lion when circus employees chased him away. May 25, 1983: In Atlantic City, New Jersey, an elephant, Frieda, owned by Clyde-Beatty Cole Brothers Circus seriously injured John Marshall of Mystic Islands. The four other elephants were eventually recaptured. One of the male elephants was crushed to death. The elephants ran toward a coal pit and plunged off a 25-foot ledge. May 13, 1982: In Sallisaw, Oklahoma, five elephants bolted from the Carson and Barnes Circus while employees were preparing to move their equipment for another show. "The animal was being harassed and he was just protecting himself," said metro-dade County homicide detective Woody Geisler. Sharp was pronounced death at the hospital. The elephant gored Sharp at least twice in the abdomen with her four-inch tusks, puncturing his aorta. The 3-1/2-year-old African, a female named Charlie, pinned William David Sharp against the side of her plywood pen. Late 1980: A 1,500 pound baby elephant gored to death an animal handler who had prodded her with an axe handle. According to newspaper reports, Dolly crumpled quickly in death and the pit was filled in over her huge body. Despite protests from animal lovers all over the nation and from several zoos that wanted her, the 27-year-old elephant was given a huge dose of cyanide. Three days later Dolly was led into a pit. At the Sarasota, Florida winter quarters of Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus, Dolly snatched Edwin Rogers Schooley from the side of his horrified parents and crushed his head with one of her ponderous feet. 1 CIRCUS & RIDE ELEPHANT INCIDENTS March 26, 1950: Dolly the circus elephant paid with her life for killing a 5-year-old boy. ![]()
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