Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Horses Burned At Winona—–Lacon, Illinois., Oct. 5, At two o’clock in the morning Burgess Brothers’ barn at Winona was burned. Thirty valuable horses, which had just been shipped in from the state fair at Springfield, were roasted alive. Many of them wore the first and second premium colors awarded there. The loss is $50,000; insurance on the barn alone. The fire is supposed to have been started by tramps in the hayloft.