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This film documents the publicly announced killing of Topsy the elephant at the unfinished Luna Park on Coney Island, New York City on January 4, 1903. The elephant had recently been acquired from Forepaugh Circus, where she had a reputation as a "bad" elephant, having killed a drunken spectator the previous year who burnt the tip of her trunk with a lit cigar.
Topsy (c. 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant who was electrocuted at Coney Island, New York, in January 1903.Born in Southeast Asia around 1875, Topsy was secretly brought into the United States soon thereafter and added to the herd of performing elephants at the Forepaugh Circus, who fraudulently advertised her as the first elephant born in the United States.
English: A photograph from a January 11, 1903 St. Louis Republic article about the the January 4, 1903 electrocution of Topsy the elephant in an event to raise publicity about the opening of the new Coney Island amusement park "Luna Park" (at this point still under construction). The newspaper account says that Topsy refused to cross the bridge ...
The high-voltage cables sent electricity surging through Débora’s body, which led to her decapitation, per El Heraldo and Televisión Azteca. Débora was pronounced dead at the scene, according ...
Scarlett Johansson and Jenna Bush Hager made their newfound friendship semi-permanent on Thursday, Jan. 23.. The Black Widow star, 40, who has been co-hosting Today with Jenna & Friends all week ...
Body camera footage released by Miami police to multiple media outlets shows Lathers on the ground, topless and breathing heavily after the Aug. 10 accident. Handcuffed by officers, she is seen ...
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A Wisconsin couple was electrocuted attempting a popular but dangerous wood-burning technique, law enforcement officials said. The "fractal burning" technique creates lightning-like etchings by ...