Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1910 — TOWN BATTLES OIL FIRE [ARTICLE]

TOWN BATTLES OIL FIRE

California City Population Tries to Keep Oil From Spreading. Property Worth $3,000,000 Endcngered By Flames at Richmond, Cal., and Plot Is Suspecte,d. Oakland, Cal., April 22. —The mammoth receiving reservoir of the.&tAndard Oil company at Richmond caught fire and practically the entire population of that place fought the flames for hours without success. An incendiary plot is suspected. The reservoir, which held 350,000 barrels of crude oil, is the end of the pipe line running from the eompanys w'ells in Bakersfield to Richmond, where the company’s refinery is. It was feared that should the fire spread the entire plant, valued at $3,000,000, would be destroyed.