CIRCUS ANIMALS SHOT
Fire Causes Heavy Loss (Received AugustS, 9.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 4. It is estimated that between 50 and 100 animals were burnt to death or shot in 15 minutes when a fire broke out amid piles of hay and sawdust in the menagerie tent ringing Barnum and Bailey’s famous circus at Cleveland, Ohio. No performance was in progress at the time. Coastguardsmen and police shot agonized animals. The elaborate animal trucks and also tents, wagons, cages and animals are mostly irreplaceable because of the war. Circus officials estimate the loss at 125.000 dollars.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 264, 6 August 1942, Page 4
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97CIRCUS ANIMALS SHOT Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 264, 6 August 1942, Page 4
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