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- On September 15, 1885, Jumbo was struck and killed by a train during a stop in St. Thomas, Ontario. Jumbo and another well-known elephant, a dwarf named Tom Thumb, were being loaded into a boxcar after the show when suddenly an unscheduled freight train came around the bend and was bearing down on them.
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Two different versions of the event emerged: one, that Jumbo was hit trying to run away from the train and the other that he was deliberately led toward the oncoming locomotive.
- Arrival in New York
- Jumbo vs The Train
- Elephant of Fortune
- Barnum Hall Fire
- Rest in Pieces
Jumbo was greeted upon his arrival by a crowd of 10,000 people eager to get a glimpse of the legendary animal. His crate was pulled up Broadway by a team of horses while the crowd cheered. The first two weeks of ticket sales alone, Barnum noted in his memoirs, more than covered the cost of purchase and shipping. But Jumbo spent just three years tou...
On September 15, 1885, Jumbo was struck and killed by a train during a stop in St. Thomas, Ontario. Jumbo and another well-known elephant, a dwarf named Tom Thumb, were being loaded into a boxcar after the show when suddenly an unscheduled freight train came around the bend and was bearing down on them. As Barnum told the story, Jumbo was trying to...
Jumbo being moved into the Barnum Museum at Tufts Museum, 1889 In 1889, Barnum donated Jumbo to Tufts University in Massachusetts, of which Barnum was a founding trustee and benefactor. Jumbo joined the collection of the Barnum Museum of Natural History at Tufts, taking his place as the centerpiece among other rare and valuable taxidermied creature...
In 1975, Barnum Hall was gutted by an electrical fire. No one was hurt, but Jumbo and the rest of the natural history collection was reduced to ashes. Only the metal armature inside Jumbo that held him upright remained in the charred ruins. But, as the Tuft website says, Jumbo’s spirit lives on. And a few pieces of him. The building smoldered for d...
Tufts keeps several small pieces of Jumbo in a cardboard box in the university archives – pieces of skin, slices of trunk, a whisker. And, of course, his tail – which remains quite popular. “It is so frequently requested we keep it in easy reach,” Anne Sauer, former director of Digital Collections and Archives, told The Guardianduring her tenure at...
Jumbo and Scott travelled across North America with the circus until 1885, when his life tragically ended in a railway accident in Ontario, Canada. After being hit by an unscheduled freight train as he was led along the track back to his carriage, Jumbo died on the 15 September, with his trunk holding onto Scott’s hand.
Dec 7, 2017 · Unfortunately, Jumbo died in tragic circumstances: contemporary accounts describe that he was hit by a train while crossing the track to reach his carriage, possibly saving a younger elephant in the process; however, a number of stories emerged at the time suggesting that his death may not have been an accident.”
Apr 22, 2024 · Jumbo was killed in 1885 after he was hit by a train. Jumbo and the circus were traveling in Canada when tragedy struck. A portion of the fence along the railway was missing, and as the keepers were loading up Jumbo and baby elephant Tom Thumb, a train came barreling toward them.
- Cynthia Griffith
Mar 7, 2014 · The death of Jumbo in St. Thomas, Ont., on Sept. 15, 1885. After he was hit by a freight train, many who had been in the circus crowd posed with his body along the tracks.
In 1890, Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth returned to London, bringing Jumbo with it. But Jumbo had been killed in a train crash in Canada in 1885. What Barnum brought back to London was his preserved skeleton and stuffed skin. It was a sad fate for a beloved animal.
