Walter Eldridge

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Walter Eldridge
Profession circus elephant keeper
Personal details
Born ?
Dead 1916-09-12 Kingsport in United Kingdom
Country United States
Locations
Title elephant keeper -1916
Location at Sparks Circus in United States
Biography details

Walter "Red" Eldridge , circus elephant keeper in United States

Born ? dead 1916-09-12 in United Kingdom .

Affiliation with 1 elephants

1: Mary (Big Mary, Murderous Mary) (fatal attack)

Casualties

1 casualties
  1. 1916-09-12: elephant keeper Walter Eldridge fatal attack by Mary (Big Mary, Murderous Mary). Eldridge started to punish her, but she grabbed him with the trunk, right around the waist and throwed him against the side of the drink stand and crushed him. When he hit the ground the elephant set his foot on his head and blood and brains and stuff squirted all over the street Walter "Red" Eldridge † Walter Eldridge Died 1916-09-12, Kingsport. Eldridge was hired as elephant groom at 11th of September in St. Paul, Virginia, and was killed after one day on duty.

1916-09-12: Killed by Mary at Sparks Circus. Eldridge was hired as elephant groom at 11th of September in St. Paul, Virginia, and was killed after one day on duty. Mary went for a piece of watermelon beside the road, and Eldridge started to punish her, but she grabbed him with the Trunk, right around the waist and throwed him against the side of the drink stand and he just knocked the whole side out of it. I guess it killed him, but when he hit the ground the elephant just walked over and set his foot on his head and blood and brains and stuff just squirted all over the street.

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References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). elephant keeper Walter "Red" Eldridge in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 26 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=3408. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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