DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
HEAVY LOSS OF TOBACCO
VALUABLE. HORSES BURNED TO
DEATH
sElec Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.; (Australian and N Z cable Association.! LONDON. April 15. Six thousand tons of tobacco which, based at the value of 2s 6d per pound, and' estimated at a value l of a million pounds, were destroyed by lire in a Victoria, docks warehouse. The firemen and fire floats fought for seven, hours -under a dense pall of smoke and fumes, which asphyxiated' firemen, policemen and officials, who recovered under the application of artificial respiration. The blaze endangered neighboring dwellings. The Imperial Tobacco Company is the biggest loser.
NEW YORK, April 15.
At Trenton (New Jersey) the racing stable barns of the) Rancoca's stock farm, housing fifty of the finest stallions and' mares in America, were destroyed by tire, thirty-five horses being burned to death, the loss of these totalling 1,5C0,000 dollars. The destroyed animals comprised probably the finest group of racing horses* under a single ownership in America.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16102, 16 April 1923, Page 3
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