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CREAT OIL FIRE
LIGHTNING IG&iis Oil TANKS.
ENORMOOS DAMAGE DONE.
A SENSATIONAL CONFLAGRATION
LONDON, July 25.
One of the .most sensational oil fires
recorded is in full
swing
at
humble
Texas.
A
lightning
storm
sweeping
over
the oil field set fire to
eleven tanks
containing 25,000,000 barrels of oil.
The fire raged for 24 hours before it
was in any way subdued, and is still
raging.
Twenty negroes have Jjeen killed and
60 mules stabled near the tanks were
burned.
Already a million barrels of oil have
been destroyed.
The flames swept 'everything- within
a -wide radius and scores of houses
have been- destroyed, while hundreds of
residents outside those whose houses
have been destroyed have been obliged
to camp " in the open owing to the
danger to their properties situated in
the fire zone.
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