RACE WITH DEATH.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 1. Thirty-six “high school horses” of the A 1 G. Barnes circus were burned to death near Nord, Cal., at 2 a.m. to-day, when the second section of the circus train caught fire. The animals, known to thousands who have seen the circus, were valued at £4OOO.
Reports to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company here attributed the fire to explosion of a watchman’s lantern. The train was. in motion when the flames suddenly were seen to shoot from the car in which the “educated horses” were being transported. Death shrieks of the prize animals, as the flames roared abound them, pierced the night and were taken up by lions and hyenas, bears and other animals in adjoining cars.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 November 1924, Page 5
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124RACE WITH DEATH. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 November 1924, Page 5
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