STAMPEDE OF ARMY HORSES.
A MILITARY CAMP OVER.RUN. AWFUL EFFECT OF FRIGHT, (Received September 6, Hn m \ , LONDON, SepWmbw oV In connection with the manoeuvre a horse of the Bth Hussar, at Baddesley North foroke its leg, and a votorinary surgeon shot it In U» horse lines. This caused 500 horses to become panic-stricken. Tttey rushed a barbed wire fence, and nianv of tho horses were injured gsverely* Tho bulk of them traversed the 14ti Hussars' camp, causing 600 horse* thero to stampede, and then followed the sight oi 700 maddened horses traversing tho countryside. Tw„ hundred plunged into Southampton harbour, and some were drowned. Twenty diod through breaJdng \keic logs or necks, and 200 are mi«a%r
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 208, 6 September 1904, Page 2
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117STAMPEDE OF ARMY HORSES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 208, 6 September 1904, Page 2
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