Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 06/26/1903.
Lion named Roosevelt Fatally Wounded At Springfield Carnival.
    A desperate battle among a cage full of lions and tigers was an unexpected feature of the animal show given in connection with the Gaskill Munday Carnival Company’s shows in Springfield. After a terrible fight, witnessed by a tent full of spectators, Col. Munday, the trainer, succeeded in separating the infuriated beasts, but not until Roosevelt, a 2-year-old lion, had been fatally wounded by a large South African lion. The animal show had just started. Col. Munday brought Roosevelt into the show cage to go through his performance, when Dewey, the largest lion in the menagerie, sprang upon Roosevelt. Col. Munday by firing blank cartridges into Dewey’s ears finally beat him off his foe, not, however, until the fight had become general among the beasts and Roosevelt’s windpipe had been severed.
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