FATAL OIL FIRE.
•- 100,000 BARRELS OF BENZINE. TWO MEN KILLED. ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE. (By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.) (RcceivcQ 1.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, September 15. Two soldiers lost their lives, and a dozen homes were destroyed and a large part of the plant of the Associated Oil Company wiped out by a tire started by lightning striking a huge tank of crude j oil. | The (lames spread to a tank of 100,000 barrels of benzine. The losses arc already £'100,00(1, and the lire is spreading. Tt j now threatens the residential section and also the property of the Standard Oil Company.—(""Sun.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 220, 16 September 1924, Page 5
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