Veteran reporter Neil Zurcher was inspired to write his new book, "Ten Ohio Disasters," when he remembered a story he had heard a half century ago while riding on an elephant. Zurcher, who worked for WJW-TV in Cleveland, had been assigned to meet the circus train of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the town of Peninsula, near Akron, and ride one of the elephants from the train to the nearby Richfield Coliseum, where the show was going to be held.