Inforum [Fargo, North Dakota]
10 January 2015
By Bob Lind
The legend of the elephant supposedly buried in the
schoolyard of Horace Mann Elementary School, Fargo, lives on. […]
“It seems that back in the late 1890s or early 1900s,
[…] a circus with more than one elephant came to town.
“One night after the show was over, two of the
elephants were apparently caught up in the ‘heat of the moment’ resulting in
the male elephant expiring right on the spot.
“Not wanting to pay the cost of transporting the
elephant somewhere else for disposal, the circus owners chose to bury him where
he fell, and that is how an elephant wound up beneath the grounds of Horace
Mann school.” […]