Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-07-08
OIL WELL FIRED.
A Man with a Lighted Cigar Starts
an Exper sive Display.
4 CHILD MEETS Az AWFUL DEATH.
-Four Persons Drowned by Their Skin Be-
ing Run Down by Pleasure Steamer
Heat PrOstrations at Chicago,
Cincinnati and Fort Wayne.

Cincinnati and Fort Wayne.
ANDERSON, Ind, July G. "A stranger
with lighted cigar gave Madison
county probably the most extensive
Fourth of July display in history yes
terday. The Trenton Oil Co., drilling
north of this city, had just opened a
mammoth reservoir, when he appeared
with his lighted cigar. The gas ignited.
The flames shot 40 feet into the air and
could be heard for miles. The derrick
was burned down in minute. There
We're no valves on the casing and there
is no way to shut off the gas. All
methods known, except the cannon
shutting, have been tried, but the pres.
sure is too strong. The cannon will
be used to-day. A ball will be fired
across the casing. 1t will blow it out
instantly. This is only used in ex.
IRENE cases. The outfit is gone and
much adjacent property is damaged.
The loss will be several thousand dol.
lars. Great crowds visited the we'll
yesterday. 1t is the first one that has
got loose for years.
A CHILD MLETs AN AWFUL DEATH.
SAN Francisco, July 6.-Bertram
Hill, the six-year-old son of Chauncey
Hill, an architect, was the victim of
sensational balloon accident yesterday.
In company with Miss Olney, daughter
of his guardian, he went to Blair's
park, near Oakland. to witness a hot
air balloon ascension by Charles Con.
Ian, of the Acme Athletic club. When
the balloon shot up into the air the
child chung to one of the guy ropes,
and was carried aloft The aeronaut
heard the shouts Of the people not to
cut loose his parachute, and obeyed,
not knowing the reason, When 1000
or more feet in the air he heard the
boys cries, and saw cap come fiutter-
ing down. He called on his unseen
companion to hold on, and made every
effort to save him. but in vain, for
soon the childs body shot by him and
was crushed out of shape when it
struck the earth.
FOUR PERSONS DROWNED.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, July Gan acct
dent occurred on the river last night
which resulted in the drowning of four
people. The drowned are: Miss Josie
Saunders, aged IS, of Little Rock:
Miss Mary Arber, aged 10, of Little
Rock; Jake Dante, of Pine Bluff. Joe
Dante, of Pine Bluff. Miss Arber was
the daughter of Mrs. C. Arber, and was
prominent in Jewish society circles in
this city, Miss Saunders was beauti-
full young lady of this city. Miss
Saunders, Miss Arber and the Dante
brothers were in skitf on the river,
where they had gone to view the fire.
works being set off from the center of
the new bridge. When the pyrotech-
mic display was over, the pleasure
steamer, U. X. Riggs, started on an
excursion up the river and ran down
the skiff, throwing all the occupants
into the water.
HEAT REGISTRATIONS IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, July g. YESTERDAY was
cooler, but the pavements and build
ings had stored up sufficient heat to
make things very uncomfortable.
There were nine deaths and sS prostra-
tions, three of them probably fatal.
The total number of deaths in the last
four days, attributable to the heat,
was %, and there We're l5s prostrations,
some of which may prove fatal.
CINCINNATI FATALITIES.
CINCINNATI, July 5.-There were 19
fatalities yesterday from the heat and
20 other prostrations of which official
notice was taken by the police patrol
wagons conveying the victims to
homes or hospitals, and fully as many
minor cases in which the victims were
able to go to their homes without
help, These bring the total to 81
fatalities in three days from the heat.
REGISTRATIONS AT FORT WAYNE.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, July q. -Yester-
day was another hot day here, The
thermometer was above 05 degrees
nearly all day. Those who succumbed
were: Mrs. Amelia Miller, Mrs. Eliza
Ewing, Frank Huxley, Mrs. Will
nam Miller, Frustrated Sunday died
Yesterday. Mrs. William Pollock was
Frustrated while in cherry tree and ,
iell to the ground Both legs were $
broker d.
PROVED HER LOVE. /;