GREAT OIL FIRE
A EXTRA EDITION!
TWO SOLDIERS KILLED
LIGHTNING STRIKES A TANK
BY CABI.E—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPS RIGHT
Received gent. 16. 11.20 a.m SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15. Two soldiers lost- -their lives and a dozen homes were destroyed a;nd a large part of the plant of the Associated Oil Company was wiped out by a fire which started by lightning striking a huge tank of crude oil. The flames spread to a tank of 100.000 barrels of gasoline. The loss is already £300,000, and the fire is spreading, it now-threatens the residential section, also the property of the Standard Oil Company.—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 September 1924, Page 9
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