RACING STABLE BURNED

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 1 November 1926, Page 8

RACING STABLE BURNED

A MYSTERIOUS FIRE

HORSES SAVED WITH DIFFICULTY.

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post") CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Between 11 o'clock and midnight last night, fire completely destroyed the racing training stable of Mr. M. B. Edwards, at Belfast. Eleven horses were in the loose boxes at the time, but all were got out. It was impossible to check the fury of the fire after it. had obtained a firm hold, and the stables were reduced to ashes in a short time. Twenty-five tons of chaff, ten tons of straw, two tons of hay, and fifty sacks of oats, which were in the feed loft, where the fire apparently originated, wero lost, as was tho bulk of the gear, sulkies, harness, blankets, and so on. As the most strenuous efforts could not check the blaze attention. was concentrated on rescuing the horses, and with great difficulty Black Admiral, Shine Soon, Holly Bell, Great Epsom, Wharchana, Harold Thorpe, General - Bingen, Dalmen ■', Arran Chief, and two unnamed mi:.'...: -.utters were led out in the choking smoke, and at considerable danger to the workers, It is considered curious that this «is the second training stable at Belfast to be burnt out in a week. Last Monday night Mr. K. Smith 'a stable at tho Belfast Hotel was similarly destroyed by fire. - .