Show HORSES fascinated BY FIRE the animals seized with frith a strange mad ness nes when la in perm the panic that is inspired in the minds of horses by a phenomenon sc ec strange as fire fim can be understood by those who have witnessed a fire in a 1 large stable where numbers of h horses are kept says the st louis globe de dem m the scene that ensues is one of the most frightful that can be con conceived the the horses are am rescued from tb the e burning building with the utmost difficulty and only with the most serious peril to the lives and limbs of the rescuers the animals go mad with fright rear kick hiek and dash from side to side so wildly as to make an attempt at rescue as perilous asan as an adventure on a hostile battery IN when hen rescued they will often break away from those who hold them and charge back at full speed into the burning building there to perish in the flames they resist every attempt to take them out they have been known to tear their rescuers with their teeth to throw them to the ground and tr trample mple on them to kick out their brams brains As the fury of the flames increases in erea S e so 60 does the panic of the unfortunate ani raa Is they scream wit out in their agony as the fire reaches their bodies yet will they not for all that seek safety in the open air they are crazed with fear and yet remain to be burned to death when a ten seconds run ran would carry them to liberty 13 but ut they never make the run ran and as a rule are burned aliva in their stalls where alone they seem to fancy they can find security ty thet I 1 neav c is 13 but one way to get them out sad ind that is to blind thern them with some cover nh ar sia s ia a or nr aad thus knabl 12 aci 1 r tl tit I 1 ab 5 bUt st thra th ra 1 ii kab ib i b apparently ri a lv y i i id U tt wil lb fear thu they ins m 1 led m n lut IA the cove cov mu 1 not be too qu u uy k ly removed from their eyes in fat fa t it should not be tak taken off fr until the animals are out of sight of the burning building otherwise they will break away from the persons leading them and in spite of the stoutest tou test efforts at restraint will dash back to perish in the flames |