FIRE IN OKLAHOMA CITY
NEW YORK, September 28
At Ardmore, in the State of Oklahoma, a spark from a workman’s hammer ignited a tank car of gasoline, and from the blaze thus caused two city blocks were razed, the result of explosions and fires. Thirty-five bodies have been recovered, but 50 persons are believed to have been crushed to death under the fall of walls. Search is proceeding in a large departmental store, where it is feared there are many bodies of girls and women, both shoppers and employees. A score of fires were caused by the flaming gasoline, which was thrown for blocks distant. Martial law r has been declared, as a panic followed the explosion. Every building on either side of the main street was demolished. Over the splintered buildings for blocks around flaming gasoline was thrown, starting scores of fires. Rescue parties were quickly formed.
All communication with the outside world was cut off for five hours. Two hundred of the injured are now in hoscital.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 65
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