Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-09-12
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Third Sand was Q busy settlement
doing business In small way In oil
There were twenty little houses, huddlet
all together; there were half dozen pro-
ducing wells, with their derricks ani
pumping machinery; there were many BIZ
storage tanks, perched here and there
among the hills; there was the railroad
there were about eighty people, big and
little.
All that was before the fire; only asher
and ruins and desolation marked where
Third Sand had been; even the railroad
was only a tangle Of twisted rails. Most
Of the people went to the larger oil fields
some Of them made homes in Oldtown,
over beyond the rim Of hills, where the
fire did not reach, and where Jack lived
but wherever they are, they tell thrill
ing story to this day about the fire.
The fire came all at once. after the
manner of fires. One day Oldtown and
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