OIL FIRE.
STARTED BY LIGHTNING. (BT CAJt*—MESS AgSOOUTIOK—COPiaIOHT.) (Received April 30th, 10.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, April 29. A telegram from Bafcersfleld, California, states that 6,000,000 barrels of oil wejo threatened when lightning started a lire is an oil reservoir containing 400,600 barrels on a storage farm of the Standard Oil Company.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18680, 1 May 1926, Page 16
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