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VALUABLE ANIMALS CREMATED I;h50esie Many Prize Pels Consumed by the Deal struction by Fire of a Poultry and Dog*ly Show at Columbus, O.—Grief of thert Owners,Columbus, 0., Jan. 13 —The Fourteenth it Regiment Armory, a frame structure onr© Spring street, was burned at 0 o'clockLU yesterday morning. The fire caught fromig a defective flue and soon envelopedn the building. There were 1,000ie rounds of ammunition in the build-;d ing. The cartridges exploded, theJri bullets flying in all directions, makinga- it dangerous for men to work- Pete Ball(colored) was stntek in the head with a !n bul’bt, but his in jury is not serious. Three:h hundred stands of rifles and the uniformsig of all the men of the regiment Were de-to etroyed, as well as the equipment andt0 paraphernalia, except the tenta The^’ officers lost much of their goods. Adju-\e tant-General Axline estimates the loss tothe State at over $15,000.The Ohio Poultry, Pigeon, Kennel and Pet Stock Association opened their secondst annual exhibition at the armory Tuesday,rt There were displays from nearly every:ie State east of the Mississippi The valueiy of the exhibit is estimated at overe* $50,000. All the poultry and |pig-eon stock, and nearly all the dogs f * were consumed. The famous Gordonsetter Royal Duke, owned by Walter Ham-,u mett, of Philadelphia, valued at $10,000,1Q broke his chain and got out badly singed,ty The only other dogs saved were the cham-ts pion English setter, Paul Gladstone, ofPittsburgh, value $10,000, and two Irish ae setters and a pointer belonging to resi-*d dents of Columbus, which had been taken09 home the night before. Among the dogs,l burned were Patti M , prize pointer slutof Cleveland, which has taken prizes at all the keunell shows and valued at $1,000. In all over 300 dogs of different li_ breeds were lost, composing the finestly display ever made in Ohio. Sir Charles,at said to bo the finest specimen ofa- the St. Bernard in America, ownedof by H. L. Goodman, Chicago, valuedat $2,500, and the whole of the Alta ken-10 nel, Toledo, ()., composed of St. Bernards, were all burned (here were between 600 and 800 entries in poultry, carrier pigeons, etc., from many States, and all were burned.There is great distress among the dog fanciers over the losses. A. L. Boggs, of he Mount Washington, lost four dogs and es-cl- timates his loss at $12,000. B.gs F. Lewis, Philadelphia, estimates hie•a- loss at $30,000. He lost twenty-eght dogaAmong the noted dogs lost are Sir Cliarles, or a St. Bern; rd; Montrose, a St. Bernard; Keystone and Lady Rock, English setters; Sam Itny's Boy, Engish setter, Dr. J. A. Hartman; Latrobe, Pa ; Bruce, Irish setter, H. Roberts, Morrison, N. Y.; Mac, Irish setter, D. L ch Carmichael, Chicago. There were 300dogsa- lost, many of them being only a grade less?s. in value than the above. The owners cre-ic- a ted great sympathy by crying over theiira* losses as if they had lost a dear friendnttillinty-sohe) lionch:orno:i mv winnlt;?
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Tampico Tornado
Tampico, Illinois, US
Sat, Jan 21, 1888
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