A Fearful Spectacle.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1914, Page 5

A Fearful Spectacle.

FIRE AT RACING STABLES.

PHROSO INCINERATED.

LADY MENSCHIKOFFS AGONY.

ROYAL ARMS, CROWN PEARL,

AND DEMISE GRME INJURED.

ITer Press Association.] Auckland, January 5

A fire broke out at the Harp < f Erin racing stables at Ellerslie fast night apparently in the feed box, and had a good hold' when discovered. The boxes containing the w. horses quartered there, were padlocked, and the doors were burst open and the horses got out as quickly as possible. It was found that Phroso, tlio valuable laud I e mare owned by Mr 6. F. Moore was incinerated.

When the door of Lady Menschikoff's box was burst open, the mare was mad with pain and terror and quite blind. She galloped round the yard mu\ paddock with her mane and tail blazing, and the cover on her back burning fiercely. When she was caught and an attempt made to remove the burning cover, the skin came off with it. The animal was in great agony and Dr. Ring, veteriniry surgeon, ordered her to be shot. The mare was owned by Mr D. Thompson, Wanganui. Royal Anns, owned by Mr "Jem's George," New Plymouth, was badly burned about the head and neck, but will recover.

Deniso Orme was similarly burned bout the neck and tail.

Crown Pearl was cut and bruised by tinning into a fence during her mad tampede that followed the opening if the doors.

The horses rushed about the yard -.creaming with pain and terror, but "ventually all were secured and quietened.

North-East, Unity, and Cheddar scaped uninjured.