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Show HORSES BURNED IN FAIR BLAZE I Three Attendants Injured While Attempting to Rescue Animals INDIAN APOLTP Feb. 20 Thei large brick horse barn at the Indiana slate fair grounds hero and about 100 valuable horses wero burned earl Sunday, . ausing a loss estimated at S20(i,000 Three horsemen also were burned, to of them seriously, In attempting at-tempting to rescue tho animals. A ordlng to Assistant Fire Chief Hoj I th fire started from an oil in the loft and tho flames spread rapldlv. trapping tho animals and Ble ping hostlers in the burning structure. struc-ture. The dead horsc9 are said to include 80 of tho 77 sent here from Camp Kn..x for use of Batteries A and C, several polo ponies, Governor Warren War-ren T. M Cray's riding horse; "The Creut Hose." a $16,000 mare recently ,,,ir. h isod by Thomas D. Taggart son of former United States Senator Thos iriggtirt. and several show horses owned bj Lon McDonald, Grand Circuit Cir-cuit race driver. oo |