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Show MAN" AND MANY HORSES ARE BURNED TO DEATH. SEATTLE. ' Wash.. Dec. 26. One man was burned alive and another was so overcome-by smoke that he is now in a dangerous condition. and thirty-one horses were burned or suffocated In a Are that broke cut In the rear barn of the Montana Stable company, on Washington street, between Fourth and Fifth avenues, at " 2:30 o'clock this morning and communicated com-municated to the New York, the Montana and the Washington lodging-houses. The monetary loss Is estimated at all the way from $10,000 to $15,000, with insurance covering cov-ering half of the amount. The exact manner in which the fire was kindled is not known positively. The general gen-eral belief Is that some one passing down the alley threw a lighted match through a wooden gate Into a part of the barn where the fire started. |