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Show A HouiuiiLE Sckni-: Hordes "Roastrd 1JY Wholesale. Company A of tbe Fifth cavalry, while en mvti for Wyoming on tho Kansas Pacific ; rnilrnmi . lost, sixteen hnr.-ii- bv l.hr burning of a car of the train near Wild Hon a station. Tne tiro was occasioned by the sparks from the ' engine, which stt fire to the hay in the car. When the fire was discovered the alarm waa given at once, and the train stopped on the main track, and an attempt made to get the frantic and suffering horses out of their fiery prison. But this was found impossible. impossi-ble. There was no chute near nor a gangway pi ink down which horses could be led. The car soon became one mass uf fire. T.ie cries and screams of -the struggling animals is described as harrowing and horriblo in the extreme. Finning it impossible impossi-ble to extricate or rescue any of tho noble animals from their terrible condition, the men iu charge- brought out their fire arms ana proceeded to shoot the horses, to put them out of their misery. U was the only thing that could bo done in the. .name of humanity, and the boys full justified In so doing. W hen the riasipni-bound passenger train p;bj-i,d tho scene) Friday, the car was still burning, the horsea being roasted into rmo solid muss of charred meat. Cheyenne L'idcr. |