† Rubber is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1939-08-06 at Russell Brothers Circus, in United States, . Official death reason described as tractor trailer crash in Mind Spring, VA.
Rubber was born wild .
1939-08-06: At a bend in the road one of the tractor trailers carrying five employees and two performing elephants named Rubber and Elsie suddenly veered off, nicked a utility pole then hurtled a ten-ft creek before slamming head-on into the opposite bank. The force of the crash demolished the front of the truck cab, instantly killing 16-year-old Rubber, as well as a trainer, a 45-year-old Kansas City man named John Blair, who was caught between the cab and the two-ton pachyderm when she was thrown into him. Four other men in the cab were taken to Kings Daughter’s Hospital with minor injuries.
At a bend in the road one of the tractor trailers carrying five employees and two performing elephants named Rubber and Elsie suddenly veered off, nicked a utility pole then hurtled a ten-ft creek before slamming head-on into the opposite bank. The force of the crash demolished the front of the truck cab, instantly killing 16-year-old Rubber, as well as a trainer, a 45-year-old Kansas City man named John Blair, who was caught between the cab and the two-ton pachyderm when she was thrown into him. Four other men in the cab were taken to Kings Daughter’s Hospital with minor injuries.
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