Sells-Floto 1926 Stampede #2

The Sells-Floto Circus had an incredible number of elephant stampedes throughout the history of the show. There is a description of this incident in Cranbrook, British Columbia, detailed in the Bandwagon Magazine. In a nut shell, a number of elephants ran off the lot and by the time the show left town, two of them "Charlie Ed" and "Myrtle" remained out in the Canadian Rockies. Boss elephant man James Dooley remained with the show but left several of his assistants behind to continue the chase with the aid of Indian guides. This picture shows "Charlie Ed" having been apprehended and now chained to a tree.