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The Daily Dispatch: April 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Explosion of an oil well — loss of Life and frightful Scenes. (search)
witness the operations of the wells. It is supposed that a number of others have been burned to a powder, close by the mouth of the well. Some thirty-four were wounded. At the time of the explosion, everything in the neighborhood--sixty or seventy rods — took fire, and shanties, derricks, engine-houses and dwellings, were at once involved in flames.--The boiler of Dobbs' well, eighty rods from the original fire, blew up with a tremendous explosion, killing instantly the engineer, Wesley Skinner, adding another intensity to the evening's horrors. At this time the whole air was on fire. The jet of oil rushing up forty feet was almost a pillar of livid flame, while the gas above it, to the distance of a hundred feet, was flashing, exploding, dashing toward the heavens, and apparently licking the clouds with its furious tongues of heat. All this time, during this tremendous combustion, the sounds of the explosions and burnings were so tremendous and continuous that they coul