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Flames shot 50 teet into the air from the 400-foot-long barn and it took 200 firefighters more than an hour to contain the early morning blaze. Fire Chief James Snadecky said. Most of the horses suffocated in their 12-foot-by-12-foot stalls where they were tied up for the night, Loser said. Two horses were rescued. One was Pleasant Sea, an offspring of Pleasant Colony, which won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness in 1981. Track officials issued a statement estimating the loss at $1 million for the barn and from $500,000 to $5 million for the horses. Nassau County police officer Howard Burtt estimated the loss at up to $10 mil lion. The track is the annual home of the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown, horse racing’s most prestigious honor. The horses were among more than 2,000 kept in 64 barns at the 430-acre complex on Long Island. WASH over gun new int Gramm-1 their stalls, Keenan said that wou®iominate have been unusual. The nature of a horse is heco®9 siders that stable his home, and something happens, he’s rnoreii for the fi dined to go into it than out/’hesaii Keenan said the sprinklersysten pipes burst last week whenthetei perature fell to near zero. The barn contained a hay W and Keenan said it was possible^ jets, hay caught fire through spom neous combustion, an occasion hazard with stored hay. The cause of the fire was undete mined, but authorities found“n«! i208billi The fire was first spotted by a night watchman who “saw flames coming out of a stall in the middle of the barn,” said John Keenan, vice president of operations for the New York Racing Association. Although some of the horses might have been able to break out of ing that indicates it would be susf jrospect cious,” said the head of the Nasa County arson squad William Guterslon. Detective 1 arget of: Horse owners indicated "a goo portion of the horses were not sured, and they will have substam; losses,” Gutersloh said. South Yemen’s civil war continues Associated Press QURAISH BORDER POST, South Yemen — Palestinian forces heading for Aden to try to arrange a cease-fire were barred from crossing this frontier post Sunday, and indi cations were that rebel troops may have seized control of South Yemen in this Marxist country’s civil war. der Post said fighting “is still contin uing” in the capital. “It is dangerous to proceed fur ther because of the fighting, and anyway, nobody is allowed through,” said the officer in charge of the post, who refused to give his name. Fit has shut down interna- •ghting tional communicatons with South Diplomatic sources based along the Persian Gulf said Sunday there were signs that President Ali Nasser Mohammed had been ousted, basing their assessment on reports received from their Aden missions and a transmission on the government ra dio wave length describing the presi dent as “irresponsible.” Yemen, and there has been no way to verify most reports. Diplomats in the region said the situation ap peared ambiguous. lead by former President Abdulfi tab Ismail. The Soviet Union has imporu bases in Aden and nearby Socotnl land and in 1979 signed a 20-ys friendship treaty with South Yew strategically located at the mouthi the Red Sea. Reported Kremla sponsored peace talks appareii have failed to achieve a lastingtme But the British Broadcasting Corp. and an Israeli television mon itor said Mohammed was on his way back to the capital, Aden, after flee ing to Ethiopia Saturday. The BBC reported without attrib ution Sunday that Mohammed was on his way back to Aden after fleeing to Ethiopia in his personal plane Sat urday. In Tel Aviv, radio and television monitor Mickey Gurdus said he heard Ethiopian state television an nounce that Mohammed left Addis Ababa for Aden Sunday afternoon. A convoy of about 30 gras painted military trucks carni about 300 troops of the Falestn Liberation Organization * stopped at Raheda, about 12 mi from this border post. A radio station which said it was transmitting from Aden on behalf of an unidentified new leadership broadcast a communique Sunday in dicating that rebels had ousted Mo hammed after a week of fighting, a news report said. Frontier guards at Quraish Bor- The South Yemen fighting broke out Jan. 13, apparently after a coup attempt by hardline Marxists op posed to Mohammed’s reported de sire to liberalize the economy of his pro-Soviet nation and to improve re lations with Western-backed Arab countries. The rebels reportedly are The trucks, each flying a Ian white flag, pulled off the mainhf way linking the two countries an were still there late Sunday i! ternoon. 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