ANOTHER OUTBURST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17228, 7 April 1930, Page 7

ANOTHER OUTBURST

OIL GUSHER ACTIVE VAST STREAMS OF OIL NEW YORK, April 5. News from Oklahoma City states that the giant wild oil gusher was brought under control late this evening, hut blew off the cone and is again geysering vast streams of oil, gas, and air. The engineers will make one more attempt to control the well, the force of the eruption of which has in no way abated. Thereafter they intend to destroy it by pumping in cement until it is completely dammed, in order to end the vast damage ami increasing fire hazard. Troops were patrolling the area for miles. A picked crew had worked for 36 hours to strap the 30001 b. “Christmas Tree’’ cone over the mouth of the well, stemming the tide of the oil ami gas, which had Hooded the neighborhood for days, with tremendous loss of the valuable products. The workers were under the direction of Homer Craig, famed for taming wild oil wells, who llcw from Tulsa. Several men were overcome during the lashing ut the cap to the well, where they were forced to work armpit deep in oil.

Farmers and dairymen in the vicinity suffered great losses from the escaping gases, while the well’s owners estimate the loss at YI.qOOO a day for nine days, each of which saw the loss ot above 100,000,060 cubic feet of gas.