Vols hanging the Bama Elephant

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I might have bumped my head but CLK has got to weeks to prepare the Vols for a trap game for Bama!! I think the game plan will be great, and the special teams will start clicking.. Vols win!
 

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air_force_vol said:
wasn't actually Kingsport but close enough, hey where you live at in charleston? i was stationed there for 7 years.
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the elephant thing did happen in kingsport and the erwin train yard was the only that had a crain big enough to do the job. not football related but just adds to the pic
 
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rooster01 said:
the elephant thing did happen in kingsport and the erwin train yard was the only that had a crain big enough to do the job. not football related but just adds to the pic
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the people were killed in Kingsport, the hanging was not in Kingsport
 
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On September 12, 1916, Kingsport residents demanded the death of circus elephant Mary (a five ton Asian elephant who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows Circus) for her killing of a city hotel worker named Walter "Red" Eldridge, who was hired the day before as an assistant elephant trainer by the circus.

On the evening of September 12, Eldridge was killed by Mary in Kingsport, Tennessee while taking her to a nearby pond to splash and frolic and drink. There are several accounts of his death but the most widely accepted version is that he prodded her behind the ear with a hook after she reached down to nibble on a watermelon rind. She went into a rage, snatched Eldridge with her trunk, threw him against a drink stand and deliberately stepped on his head, crushing it. One of his ears was never found.

The details of the aftermath are confused in a haze of sensationalist newspaper stories and folklore. Most accounts indicate that she calmed down afterward and didn't charge the onlookers, who were chanting, "Kill the elephant!" Apparently, within minutes, a local blacksmith tried to oblige, firing more than two dozen rounds at the elephant with little effect. Newspapers published claims that Murderous Mary had killed several workers in the past and noted that she was larger than the world famous Jumbo the elephant. Mary was impounded by the local sheriff, and the leaders of several nearby towns threatened not to allow the circus to visit if Mary was included. The circus owner, Charlie Sparks, reluctantly decided that the only way to quickly resolve the potentially ruinous situation was to hold a public execution. On the following day, a foggy and rainy September 13, 1916, she was transported by rail to Erwin, Tennessee where a crowd of over 2,500 people (including most of the town's children) assembled in the Clinchfield railroad yard to watch the hanging.
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Man we've had some stupid people on this earth...
 
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You better believe that poor elephant had a miserable life compared to how we are accustomed to treating animals now. Some of the versions of the story I have heard basically highlight the fact that the man killed had no real working knowledge of how to handle an elephant, and was quite rough and abusive with it. I imagine he tried to handle it like a mule, which led to the problem. Elephants are highly emotional.
 
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Yes they are, Those people had no business taking that elephant out of it's natural habitat anyways.. Reading that story made me sick to my stomach..
 
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Makes me angry and sad as well. I mean to kill it is bad enough, but to hang it? If your going to be cruel and kill it, at least kill it fast.

Sick.

Nice picture thanks for sharing....
 
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Roll Tide Rev said:
Makes me angry and sad as well. I mean to kill it is bad enough, but to hang it? If your going to be cruel and kill it, at least kill it fast.

Sick.

Nice picture thanks for sharing....
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I agree it's cruel...but for some reason this week it seems fitting:yes:
 
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In an ironic twist, TN is now home to one of the world's largest elephant sanctuaries, caring for several abused, abandoned, or retired circus and zoo elephants.
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Roll Tide Rev said:
Makes me angry and sad as well. I mean to kill it is bad enough, but to hang it? If your going to be cruel and kill it, at least kill it fast.

Sick.

Nice picture thanks for sharing....
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They literally could find no way to kill it. They couldn't find a firearm powerful enough, although they tried and shot it multiple times anyway. They tried to drown it but couldn't do that. And so the fools decided to attempt to do possibly the most difficult thing of all and hang it. I didn't click on the link so you may already know this, but it took at least two attempts to hang the poor thing. The first time the chain broke and the elephant broke it's legs.
 
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