OIL WELL CATCHES FIRE.
THIRTEEN LIVES LOST.
VAST PILLAE OF FLAME.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.
(Reed. 6.5G p.m.) NEW YOEK. May 10. Thirteen men were burned to death by the explosion of a newly-sunk oil well at Kerens, Texas. A worker attempted to close the well when the oil began to gush. Friction ignited gas from the oil, resulting in a vast pillar of flame 100 feet high. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18396, 11 May 1923, Page 7
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