Show Horses Horse's s Tail Brings Disaster We have heard heard many many tales of the serious serious consequences wrought through the near proximity or of gasoline and lighted cigarettes but when a horses horse's tail tall enters the train of incidents the effect apparently is overwhelming judging from the story received from Evanston Illinois There a milk truck driver smoking a cigarette parked in the dairy yard to refill the gasoline overflowed overflowed overflowed over over- flowed on site tiie ground at the moment I 1 e flicked ashes from his cigarette Instantly the gasoline flared up and 1 ignited his coat which in hastily he threw on the tail of one of 12 horses in a nearby barn bane This a annoyed oyed the animal so that he switched his burning burning burn burn- ing tail tossing the flaming coat onto onto onto on on- to a pile of hay Result A policeman managed to lead out the frightened horses but the fire loss Included t the e barn five trucks and some wagons damage The National Board of Fire Underwriters Underwriters Underwriters Under Under- writers estimates that careless use of matches matches and and smoking smoking caused caused fire losses of over In 1927 while petroleum and its Ita products resulted In losses of more than It is well to treat these products with due care |