Hi Linda. I requested to know if anyone had access to the newspaper articles. Actually I wanted two different articles (copies of). Barnum & Bailey purchased Jumbo in 1882, but Jumbo was killed by a locomotive in 1885. That is the first article I wanted to see. Then in 1889, in Potsdam, New York, the circus train was wrecked. Many of their animals were killed in the wreck, including many of the camels and Arabian stallions. That was the second one. There were many articles about it, a lot of pictures, etc. My great-grandfather had been in NY at the time, and helped round up the animals and right the train. I just wanted to see if I could find any of the articles about either or, preferably, both of them. They were big news at the time. I would love to have them. If you have access to them, I would deeply appreciate them. Thank you very much for writing back. I'm sure that others would be interested in hearing about both of these things, too. By the way, Jumbo was a 6-ton ele! phant, which is where the word 'Jumbo' originated in our everyday lexicon of language! He was the largest elephant in captivity, hence the interest in him. Thank you again, Linda. Bonnie ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda/Don Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 8:12 PM To: NY-OLD-NEWS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NY-Old-News] Jumbo Someone was requesting the date of the train wreck of when Jumbo the elephant died--I found an article today that was in the Sept. 19-1885 issue of our local paper, if someone is still interested. Linda ==== NY-OLD-NEWS Mailing List ==== New York Newspapers http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com/NY/ ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com