Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1893 — "GONE THE SIX HUNDRED.” [ARTICLE]

"GONE THE SIX HUNDRED.”

Ux Hundred Street Car Horses Perish.ln a Chicago Fire. Frenzied with fright and driven into a •tampede by a raging fire that broke out Thursday night in the Wallace street barns, of the Chicago City Railway company. nearly six hundred horses were burned to death. The barns were entirely destroyed and the total loss entailed by the sompany will reach a high figure. The building was a two-story brick affair, which extended 400 feet on Wallace street and ninety feet on Thirty-ninth street. AU the horses were on the first floor and tn ten minutes after the fire was discovered they were helpless. They were blinded by the flames and the smoke that roiled through the place in great volumes, and soon a stampede was In progress. The animals surged back and forth in groups »t fifties and hundreds in their efforts to escape. Their loud neighing and an occasional cry of pain told the people on the street of the fearful scenes that were being enacted on the inside. Yet little or nothing could at first be done to save any of the animals. The total loss is estimated at $120,(.09.