Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-08-20
CattIe stable Burned--HorrIble Roast.

Cnttie stable buFned-ssHorrleAe Aoesi'
The Cow Stables of VIM. Hogan, on the
State Fair grounds near Cincinnati, were burn
ed Tuesday night, and seventy-four cows, four
horses, one mule, five calves, and two goats,
milk wagons, DC and a thousand dollars worth
of oats, corn and hay, were destroyed The
building was $50 feet long by so wide, and was
erected for the Dining Saloon of last years
State Fair. Mr.. Hogan's loss is $1,000, and no
insurance The only animals saved were two
horses, two cows, and mule, asd those badly
burned. The fire was discovered al 10 in the
evening, and supposed to be the work of an m
cendiary The Commercial gives the following
account of the
HORRIBLE SPECTACLE IN THE sTABLEs.
Mr.. Hogan describes the scene in the stables
in the midst Of the confagration, as most pit
eously and indeseribably narrowing. The live
stock were all tied in their stalls. The horses
and mules were baltered in the usual manner,
and the cows were bound around their horns.
When the flames first tcommenced their ravages,
the poor animals snOTted and beloved with
hideOus and frantic force As the heat increas-
ed, and the fierce fires began 10 lick and seorch
their quiveTing flesh, their cries and grOans, and
furious struggles became agonizing. Some
threw themselves headlong upon the floor or
leaped upright at full length with frenzicd ener-
", and vented their agony in fearful screams
The horses broke from their halters, and dashed
through the consuming blaze in desperate dis
may
The tortured and suffocating cows tore away
their horns and rushed through the blazing
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collision, their flesh brUiling and cracking in
the heat with sickening effect upon the senses
of human beings who gazed horror stricken up
the wretchcd scene Of suffering, without power
to mitigate the agony OF the tortured brutes.-
The yeIls and despairing cries Of the different
classes of animals eOmmingled in horrid con-
cert, and broke through the roar OF flames and
cracking timbers upon the still night air and
was borne away in terrifying echoes TO the
ears of persons two miles distant from the
dreadful scene.
Two or three horses and as many COWS
plunged through the flames and burst Ia wild
alright through the sides of the consuming
structure, and fell headlOng, whining with
misery, upon the ground outside, sprang again
to their feet and sped with frenzied fury across
the fields until they dropped hleless from sheer
exhaustion. Some rolled upon the floor Of the
stable, screaming with lmmItlgable pain, until
suffOcated and destroyed by the fierce heat.
Their contortions, their awful walls of distress,
infinitely more piteOus and narrowing than
those of human beings in the dire extremity of
torture. arc described by those who gazed SPELL
bound upon the terrible spectacle, as surpass-
ing the power # human Imagination to con-
eeiye Happily the agony of the poor brutes
was not greatly prolonged. The timber COM
posing the stables burned ike tindeT, and the
hay and oats-straw, some forty tons, blazed and
perished in fierce heat ike lucifer matches
But the flesh Of the carcasses quivered, and
blazed and broiled all night long and filed the
atmosphere with a sickening effiuvia-
Yesterday morning, large numbers Of persons
visited the ruins; but they turned from the spec
taele with disgust The charred and shoulder
ing remains of the dead animals lay in great
heaps. Some were only partially consumed,
Of some nothing but bones, horns and hOofs re-
mained. Some of the COWS stood upright at
their stalls, their flesh barbeeued; others were
without heads; others without limbs; in one
instance four or five carcases together with |
their horns interlOeked, forming a circle. Ii |
was ghastly scene to contemplate.