Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1909 — LIGHTNING HITS OIL TANK [ARTICLE]

LIGHTNING HITS OIL TANK

Petroleum That Was Worth $25,000 Is Burned In Kentucky Field. Morehead, Ky., Aug. 17.—Lightning struck one of the large oil tanks in the Ragland fields, eight miles west of here. i Thirty-five thousand barrels of crude petroluem was burned with a less exceeding $25,000.