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Dead Horses On Ground In Full View Of Trains.

Fourteen Dead Horses Lie on the Ground near Railroad Tracks at Beach.

Investigation Demanded.

Man Said to Buy Horses for Their Hides and Leaves the Carcasses on Ground.

     The presence of the carcasses of fourteen dead horses on a knoll beside the Chicago and Northwestern railroad tracks just north of the Beach station and just this side of Zion City, has caused a protest to be made and an investigation is to be started.

     People riding by on the trains were the first to notice the carcasses. At first they could not imagine why they were there. A fact that puzzled them still more was that the carcasses all were skinned.

     Investigation brings forth the statement that a man living in that vicinity makes it a practice to buy up horses which have outlived their usefulness. He is said to take them to this spot which overlooks the track and there shoots them. He then removes their hide which has a commercial value.

     Up to the present time he has made no effort to bury these dead bodies. Whether he intends to is merely a matter of conjecture. It is feared that unless this is done there will be a fearful stench as warm weather arrives. People say they do not purpose to put up with such a nuisance and have demanded that something be done at once. Nothing but the burial or removal of the carcasses will suffice.

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