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Killed By Angry Elephant.

Punlished in The Waukegan Daily Sun on 10/21/1898.

George Dilly, a Circus Man, Beaten and Crushed to Death.

     At Ronevert, W. Va., George Dilly, a circus man, was killed by a female elephant. The elephant broke her chain, picked up Dilly with her trunk, and beat him upon the ground, and then crushed him with her feet. Dilly had been teasing the elephant and her baby until the animal became enraged.

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