Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-16
! BURNING PETROLEUM.
EIGHTY-TWO THOUSAND BARRELS
OFOIL FIRED BYLIGHTNING.
A Young Girl Caught In the Burning Fluid
and Cremated-Losses Already Amount
ing TO Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
Mob Butchery In New Mexlco-Tatal
Rail Casually In Indiana Other. Grimes
and Casualties.
OIL CREMATION.

BRADFoRD, Pa, July 15.-Last evening an
oil pipe line burst near Salamanca, N. Y,
and the squirting oil by some means took
lire. five year old daughter of John Wash
burne was playing at the spot where the
rupture in the pipe occurred. Her clothing
was saturated with the oil and before she
could get away was caught in the flames and
literally roasted.
BURNING OLE.
BRADFORD, Pa, July 15.-Tank 263, be-
longing tc the Acme oil company, about one
third up the Kansas branch, near McKisney,
was struck by lightning early this morning
and is burning furiously. Tank No. 81,
about 200 feet down the stream, is in danger.
The su cerintendents are now with gang of
men digging trenches and damming the
stream to save more tanks. Some 25,0O0
barrel tanks near Custer City are now burn
ing. They were also struck by lightning
last night. Both of them belong to the
united pipe lines. About $4,000 barrels of
OIL are burning. Four wells at Custer City
are also fred.
BRADFORD, Pa, July 15.-At II o'clock
to night one of the huge iron tanks at Gus
tsr had been burned and the other is down
to the boiling over point. Water is being
pumped In and oil drawn off and burned on
the surface of the stream. 1t now looks as
If the other tanks and adjoining property
were safe. The burning tank at Kansas
branch has almost spent it's fury, and it is
thought the fire will be confined to its pres
ent limits. The loss up to the present from
the storm IN Bradford region will reach
$115,000.
CoLLIERy BURNED.
PoTTsvILLE, Pa, July 15.-Margie Frank
lin colliery, owned and operated by the En-
terprise coal company at Excelsior, burned
this morning. Loss $4,000; insurance,
$4,000. Three hundred men and boys are
thrown out of employment.
BLOODY WORK OF THE MOB.
SANTA FE, N. M. July 15---At Lincoln,
IN Lincoln county, July 3, young man
named Harrison came into town, and be-
coming intoxicated was locked up. A mob
affected an entrance to the Jail and killed
Harrison, riddling him with bullets. On
the night of the 4th mob again surround
ed the Jail and killed the deputy sheriff, who
was Implicated in the killing of the night
before, and had made himself obnoxious.
On the night of the 9th the outlaws again
visited the jail, taking out and hanging o
prisoner. 1t is not known what the prison
ers, crimes were.:
DIED OF HER INJURIES.
DANvILLE, Va, July 15.-MoIlie DeJar-
nette, shot by her brother in a house of i'll
rspute last Thursday, died this evening.
TRAIN WRECKED.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 15.--1he vandalia
night express due here at O'Clock, was
wrecked at Amor station, twenty-five miles
asssof Indianapolis this morning, by run
ming into an open switch. Engineer Dro.
sen had leg badly crushed, also tramp
who was stealing ride was badly injured,
and will probably die. Tue Engine and par
ior car were completely demolished. Ali the
coaches were more or less damaged.