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Fire in Race Barn Loses Three Horses and Handful of People
A fire at a New Orleans fair grounds stable burned three people and an apprentice, with a still undetermined number of race horses and two score quartered in the barns. Overheated stove started blaze. early counts list fifteen horses burned. Stableman J W Smith and Phil Cartman suffered minor burns. apprentice May Bennett was seriously burned and later hospitalized. Sir Thomas Lipton plans Shamrock V first race May 21 at Southend Regatta after April cruise.
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New Orleans
Sera
Unc
Fair Vols
J. W. Smith
Phil Cartman
H. B. Reether
Portsmouth
England
Thomas “Lipton
Shamrock V
Southend Regatta