HERE IS ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL oil fire pictures ever taken—a well bursting into flames. Two hundred quarts of nitro-glycerin were dropped into the hole, to start the gusher. A flint-like rock was hurled upward against the steel derrick, thus igniting the gas-laden atmosphere. The fire took twenty-five hours to extinguish.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19108, 28 June 1930, Page 19 (Supplement)
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52HERE IS ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL oil fire pictures ever taken—a well bursting into flames. Two hundred quarts of nitro-glycerin were dropped into the hole, to start the gusher. A flint-like rock was hurled upward against the steel derrick, thus igniting the gas-laden atmosphere. The fire took twenty-five hours to extinguish. Star (Christchurch), Issue 19108, 28 June 1930, Page 19 (Supplement)
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