GREAT OIL FIRE
AT SAN LUIS OBISPO HUGE TANK STRUCK BY LIGHTNING By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright. New York, April 7. San Luis Obispo has suffered greatest oil lire in the history of the industry. The loss is estimated at £4,000,000. —Sydney “Sun” Cable. San Luis Obispo, April 7. Loss estimated at 2,000,000 dollars resulted from the fire in the Union Oil Company fields here on Wednesday afternoon. The fire started when lightning struck a huge underground concrete tank. Four tanks are now burning, making probably the largest conflagration ever experienced on the United States oilfields-. If the barricades now being built fail to check the spread of the flaming liquid, the company’s officials say that nothing can save the remaining tanks.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE ESTIMATED LOSS San Luis Obispo, April 7. Latest estimates place the loss in connection with the oil fire at 10,000,000 dollars.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [San Luis Obispo is a seaport of California, and is the chief oil export centre.]
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 165, 9 April 1926, Page 9
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