Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1915 — 600 Texan Horses Bound For War Drown When Barge Sank. [ARTICLE]

600 Texan Horses Bound For War Drown When Barge Sank.

New York, Dec. 17.—Nearly six hundred -horses, valued at an average of S2OO each, consigned to Brest, France, for the use of allied armies, were drowned,in the North river this afternoon when a barge ' sprang a leak and sank. The animals were to be transferred to the steamer AngloCalifornian for transportation to France. Most of the horses were raised in Texas. The barge went to the bottom soon after the loading of the animals on the steamer had begun.