OIL STILL BLAZING
Explosion Proves Futile GREAT MOROCCAN GUSHER (Received Mhrch 16, 7 p.m.) Tangier, March 15. Half a ton of dynamite failed to extinguish the gusher at Mt. Tselfat. It is intended to manufacture chemical extinguishers in large quantities on the spot. A Casablanca (Morocco) message dated March 14, stated that prospectors, after searching in the desert and mountains for six vears for oil, struck it under Mount Tselfat, 25 miles from Fort Lyautey. Oil spouted with such velocity and volume that it broke high tension cables 50 feet high, causing a short circuit, a sheet of flame, then a thunderous roar as the oil flared skywards in a gigantic geyser of liquid fire. Experts estimate the output of the flaming gusher at 1,800,000 gallons a day.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 146, 17 March 1934, Page 7
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