People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — A Bath of Fire. [ARTICLE]

A Bath of Fire.

Bradford, Pa., May 15. —The barrel house at Emery’s refinery in this city took fire Sunday afternoon, presumably by spontaneous combustion, and was destroyed. A tank ear holding 4,100 gallons of benzine burst with a mighty roar. In the frantic rush to escape what seemed to threaten a horrible death men, women and children were thrown down and trampled upon. Thirty-five of the firemen were burned so that the skin peeled off their faces and hands and the hair was singed off their heads and faces.