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| | List of historical elephants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Elephants were almost unheard of in America at this time and its presence helped prompt an Arkansas paper to call Rice's circus "The greatest show on earth", decades before other circuses would use the phrase. |
 | | Mary the Elephant - For reasons unknown, Mary, touring with Charles H. Sparks's World Famous Show, killed her inexperienced keeper Walter "Red" Eldridge on September 12, 1916, and was executed for that "crime" on September 13, 1916 in Erwin, Tennessee by being hanged by a railroad derrick car at the Clinchfield Railroad yard. |
 | | Tyke was a circus elephant who on August 20, 1994 in Honolulu, Hawaii, killed her trainer, Allen Campbell, and mauled her groom Dallas Beckwith causing severe injuries during a Circus International performance before hundreds of horrified spectators. |
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