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The Daily Dispatch: April 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], Explosion of an oil well — loss of Life and frightful Scenes. (search)
Explosion of an oil well — loss of Life and frightful Scenes.
It has already been briefly mentioned that an oil well in Warren county, Pa., took fire a few days ago and exploded with frightful effect, causing the loss of eighteen lives.
A letter gives the following additional particulars:
A well which had been drilled over two hundred feet by Hawley & Merrick, had struck oil, but the yield being less than expected, the pumping was abandoned and drilling re-commenced.
Over one hundred feet further were drilled, when at half-past 5 on Wednesday evening a sudden rush of oil through the five inch and a half tubing threw out the drills and gushed up into the air forty feet above the surface of the ground.
At the least computation it was throwing from seventy to one hundred barrels an hour.
Above this mass of oil, the gas of benzine rose in a cloud, for fifty or sixty feet. As soon as the oil commenced gushing forth, all the fires of engines in the neighborhood were immediat