MAN WITH RISKIEST JOB
The man with the riskiest job in the world is planning to visit England in the near future because, he says, he has a longing to see the old world before he sees the next world. Tex Thornton is a professional oil well shooter—that lis, !he Jgains a hazardous living by starting oil wells by the use of high explosive shells or extinguising oil fires by "blowing them out" with nitro-glycerine.
He was the hero of a recent oil well fire in Texas which illustrates his extraordinarily risky job. He donned his asbestos suit and crawled out towards the spouting inferno. In front of him he pushed two asbestos tubes containing enough explosives to annihilate a town. When he got within range he placed the explosive shells so that when they exploded they would blow out the column of blazing gas from the oil. Then he ran back and waited for the heat to fire the explosive. "I've been following this trade for 14 years," Tex said.
"I've had some amazingly narrow escapes. But the job appeals to me and I shall go on doing it until—well, until I get what's coming to me sooner or later."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3372, 1 October 1931, Page 3
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