Live Stock Burned at Fort Worth.
Nearly two acres of stock sheds burned at Fort Worth, Tex., on March 11, roasting to death between 500 and 1,000 head of horses, sheep and hogs, and seriously burining four men. The value of the dead animals is estimated at about $250,000, and the property loss $50,000. Large numbers of blooded animals, which are here for exhibition to-day at the stock show, the biggest exhibition of its kind in the Southwest, are believed to have been saved. The caretakers' first efforts were for these animals, scores of which were turned loose to run as they pleased through the stockyards district. The fire is believed to have started by the carelessness of a helper cooking his breakfast in one of the barns. None of the packing houses was damaged.
Nearly two acres of stock sheds burned at Fort Worth, Tex., on March 11, roasting to death between 500 and 1,000 head of horses, sheep and hogs, and seriously burining four men. The value of the dead animals is estimated at about $250,000, and the property loss $50,000. Large numbers of blooded animals, which are here for exhibition to-day at the stock show, the biggest exhibition of its kind in the Southwest, are believed to have been saved. The caretakers' first efforts were for these animals, scores of which were turned loose to run as they pleased through the stockyards district. The fire is believed to have started by the carelessness of a helper cooking his breakfast in one of the barns. None of the packing houses was damaged.
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