Russell Brothers Circus in United States

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Russell Brothers Circus
Type	circus
Place	Herrin
Country	United States
Related persons
Owner	-: Charles Webb 1943-1948: Arthur Concello

Performers & Artists
1937-1937: Steve Fanning

Zoological department
Elephant department

Elephant Superintendent	1943-1944: Cheerful Gardner


Elephant Trainer	1945: Mac Macdonald 1933-1933: Bill Woodcock -: Mac McDonald

Elephant keepers
-1944: Gabe Tucker -: Frenchie Durant -: Norma Rogers

Record history
History of updates	2022-04-07

Latest document update	2022-04-07 11:00:02

Description

Russell Brothers Circus, in Herrin, United States .

Casualties

1 casualties

1944-07-12?: elephant keeper Gabe Tucker fatal attack by Lucy. The show left Portland after the Sunday date (July 9, 1944) and moved to Vancouver, Washington, for two days. Longview was next and then Chehalis. It was here, after the night show had broken, that Lucy killed Gabe Tucker. † Gabe Tucker Died 1944-07-12?, Chehalis. Concello immediately called C. R. Montgomery who had a mink farm outside Albany, Oregon, and urged him to shelter the elephant.

Comments / pictures

Beatty-Russell Circus in the the fourties

The center ring act was presented by Mac McDonald and Norma Rogers. The five elephants in this act were Elsie, Margaret, Myrtle, Daisy, and Dixie. Mac McDonald was in charge of all the animals during the fourties. His assistant was Frenchie Durant.

The show left Portland after the Sunday date (July 9, 1944) and moved to Vancouver, Washington, for two days. Longview was next and then Chehalis. It was here, after the night show had broken, that Lucy killed Gabe Tucker. Concello immediately called C. R. Montgomery who had a mink farm outside Albany, Oregon, and urged him to shelter the elephant.

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Lucy at Beatty-Russel

References for records about Russell Brothers Circus

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Russell Brothers Circus, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=729. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Clyde Beatty and Russell Bros. Combined Circus, Season of 1944 by Chang Reynolds. Bandwagon, Vol. 13, No. 3 (May-Jun), 1969, pp. 10-19.

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