In the long history of animal draws, none could ever equal Jumbo. Even to this day. In his prime, Jumbo came to the attention of P.T. Barnum. P.T. just had to have him. Sure, the gigantic pachyderm had toured Europe many times and had his off tour home in England, but, had never been seen in the United States. Barnum offered a fortune for the beast. Not only was Jumbo big, he was also an African Elephant. Much more impressive then its Asian cousin. Also, much more dangerous. Barnum finally gets his animal. Actually, he paid three times as much as he thought he would. It seems Jumbo wouldn’t do a damn thing without his little pygmy elephant stable mate. Barnum paid up again. P.T. made a fortune with Jumbo. One day, while in a railroad yard, the animals we’re being loaded for another tour. A train whistle spooked the pygmy. It took off down the tracks. Jumbo raced after his little pal. An engine killed Jumbo, saving him…Jumbo was racing the locomotive to reach his little pal. The engineer was a real asshole. He kept blowing the whistle to make the pygmy elephant keep running. Another engine was coming from the other direction. Its engineer couldn’t see the little guy. The pygmy had run up onto the other tracks. Jumbo came up from behind, reached ahead, swatted his buddy out of the way, then was hit head on by the other engine. The impact knocked the trains front wheels off the rails. Barnum had the skeleton saved, wired together, then show cased it in his museum. The display had a plaque telling the story…
