The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-21
HORSES BURNED
IN THEIR STALLS
CONTINUED From First Page.)


and would have been ready for the
track again within q few days.
Mr.. Gray Of Fouqurean. Temple &
Co., was the other man to suffer loss as
a result Of the destruction Of DR.. Smiths
place. He had In the hospital fast
trotting horse. which gave promise OF
showing speed suitable to putting her on
the track.
1t was only through heroic efforts that
the other horses in DR.. Smiths stable
We're saved. Burning, as It did, the blaze
was some time in reaching this stable.
and In the interim hundreds Of people
We're busly engaged in trying to save
the lives Of the dumb beasts.
More than once an almost suffocated
animal was withdrawn from the stable
by the means Of ropes attached to the
heads and necks Of the senseless anil
mails, 1t required the combined strength
of moro than forty men to pull one OF
the beasts from the burning place. #
Mr.. N. ]. Crull stated that there were
twenty-eight or twenty-nine horses In
his stable. and Of these lie could not tell
how many horses We're saved. Officer Red
ford, of the Second District, who burst
open the doors Of the stable said that
about twenty horses We're gotten out Of
this stable, That being so. eighth or nine
We're burned. He also had twenty or
moro vehicles. but In the confusion pre-
Va1ling no definite statement could be
had Then there was harness for all the
teams and quantity Of forage and grain.
His entire loss will reach and may exceed
$4,000. AS soon rs the horses were res
cued they dashed away In ever direction,
and 1t was impossible to verify the figures
given, or to get definite statements of
anything;
FAD TO WAKE MEN,
goNce Olhcer BEDFORD burst open the
door of Crulls, stable about / o'clock Mt
and fell Into the building as the door
Yielded to his weight and impact, Recov-
ering himself, he and others aroused
the stable office, near Tenth Street, md
three others We're awakened in Smiths
saahieb NEXT a,a door and rushed out to safe
Bradley Poiuaux, Farley and II. d.
Walton rendered effective service in get
ting the terrified and plungng animals
from , the burning stables, Both doors,
done, that was possible In the face of
| the heat and flames to extricate the
| horses.
GREAT EXCITEMENT.
From the moment OF the discovery. OF
! the fire the widest excitement prevailed
the nesa o q the odsnEsa
street, and in the dWelling adjoiniHi;
aa wo nsS' "T' sG' lus &c chH d
thi,her, shouting and dragsings trunks
beds, bedding and furniture from tho
| threatened houses and throwing much OF
| 1T from windows, Half n dozen trunks
We're, thrown from upper windows and
smashed on the pavement of Cary Street
Some Of the occupants of these Cary
Street lodgings We're white, but most Of
| them were colored. No estimate can be
had OF these miscellaneous losses. which
though smal IN money value. arc serious
| to the owners
In all the excitement no human life was
lost SO far as known. hut from thirty-nve
to forty horses We're burned, The pool
brutes died silently, bewildered and
blinded by the flames and smoke, The
noise of their plungins was soon stilled
as they succumbed 10 suYocation.
THREE ALARMS SOUNDED.
The first alarm from Box 81. Cary Street
Engine House. was followed a few mo,
ments later by a second, and later stu
by the three skies. summoning the entire
department to the scene. The, FIRE was
! fought from the Cary Street Side In the
| basement and rear OF Jenkins stable
from the roofs and rear Of the bar-rooms
i on Cary Street, and With several streams
directed from Tenth Street into the fronts
of Smith's and Crnll's stables
The entire hghting force Of the depart.
neat aas soon at work. directed BY Chief