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The Petoskey (Michigan) Record
October 25, 1893


           PERISH BY THE SCORE.
           
           Nearly Four Hundred Street Car Horses
             Burn at Chicago.
             
           Frenzied with fright and driven into a stampede by a raging
         fire that broke out in the Wallace street barns of the Chicago
         City Railway Company, nearly 400 horses were either suffocated
         or burned to death. The barn was one of the largest in the city,
         and one-half of it was burned to the ground. In the other half
         were stored eighty winter cars, worth $100,000. They were all
         saved, the two sections of the building being separated by a
         heavy brick wall. On the second floor of the portion destroyed
         were thirty cars, which were destroyed, together with 200 tons
         of hay and 500 bushels of mixed grain. The total loss as esti-
         mated by Superintendent Bowen, of the Chicago City Railway Com-
         pany, was nearly $110,000.
           The blaze started in the very midst of the horses. At the 
         first scent of the smoke the animals became frenzied. As the
         fire spread the uproar increased. All the horses were securely
         tied to the stalls, and there was no escape except for the few
         which were released from the entrances and sent galloping down
         the street. Eighty horses were saved. Almost 400 reared, neighed
         and kicked until the dense cloud of smoke from the burning hay
         in the loft above came down on them and put an end to their
         suffering and terror. Of the 381 animals that perished it is
         the opinion of the firemen that few were burned outright.
         
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