BURNED TO DEATH
FIRE IN AN OIL WELL.
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NEW YORK, 9th May.
At Kerens, Texas, thirteen men were burned to death by an explosion at a newly-sunk oil well, which a worker attempted to close when the oil began to gush. Friction ignited the gas and oil, resulting in a vast pillar of flame a hundred feet high. > Attempts to extinguish the flame were unsuccessful.
(Received 11th May, 1.30 p.m.)
NEW YORK, 10th May.
The casualties in the oil fire have risen to sixteen, who are known to he dead, while twenty are missing.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 111, 11 May 1923, Page 7
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