Tip
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Haag Circus in United States

Biography
dead elephant ☨ ⚪ Tip  dead elephant

Identification


Description

Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:

People killed:1
Origin
Born:* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead: 1937-08-00
Death reason: accident: truck accident, neck broken
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Haag Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1903-00-00Haag Circus
Record history
History of updates2012-04-22

Latest document update2020-10-18 06:25:24
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† Tip is a dead Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1937-08-00 at Haag Circus, in United States, . Official death reason described as truck accident, neck broken.

Origin

Tip was born wild .


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1910: Frank Johnson, of the Haag Show, was killed by an elephant at Milhon, Ont. last week.
New York clippings 1910

According to the news reports, the truck that was carrying Tip lost control near Ebensburg, Pa. throwing Tip from the truck. Tip then slammed into a guardrail post, impaling it into the ground even further and breaking the elephant's neck at the same
Bob Cline

Reportly one of the Mighty Haag elephants killed elephant keeper Frank Johnson in June 1912. One source states it was Tip.
Darren Bryan in Georgia

Records about Tip from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
TIP (female)
1903-29 Mighty Haag Show
1930-37 Haag Bros. Circus
(Died in 1937)
(Killed trainer Frank Johnson 6/13/12)

William "Buckles" Woodcock
Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Tip, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Haag Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 28 March 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2815. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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