TERRIBLE FIRE
FOUR MEN AND 95 HORSES KILLED. lUnited Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). OAKLAND (California). February 9. | At least four men, two badly burned I for identification and over 95 horses | were killed when a fire destroyed the Oakland Horse Show buildings. Practically all prize winners, it j s feared are killed. The .scenes of the fire was a terrible uproar, the burning horses screaming in agony. Some broke through the flaming walls and dashed off with their manes and tails afire. The police stood outside to shoot them as they appeared. FATAL AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. NEW YORK, February !). A report from Oakland (California) states four persons were burned to death and between fifty and eighty blueblooded horses valued at half a million dollars, perished to-day in a fire which destroyed the Oakland Horse Show building.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1931, Page 5
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