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A Horse Frightened To Death By An Elephant.

Published in the Dixon Telegraph and Lee County Herald, Dixon, Illinois on Saturday, January 24, 1857

A very remarkable case of the effects of fright upon a horse occured at Franklin a short time since. A horse belonging to Mr. Joseph Palmer, was grazing in the yard near the fence, when the elephants belonging to the menagerie recently in this city, were passing along. The horse did not observe them till they were quite close to him, when, looking up and seeing the huge animals, he started back in a fright, ran to the opposite side of the yard, stood for a moment quivering, and then dropped dead. He was litterally frightened to death.-[Norwich [Conn.] Aurora, July 18.

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