People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1895 — RAIN QUENCHES FIRES. [ARTICLE]

RAIN QUENCHES FIRES.

Inhabitants of Northern Pennsylvania Breathe Easier. Bradford, Pa.. June 5. -A downpour of rain quenched the fires in this vicinity, and everything is quiet. Knapp’s Creek, N. Y., the town that was threatened with destruction, escaped with a loss of three dwellings and 150 oil-well rigs, and two tanks of oil. Between Dulles Center and Knapps Creek 200 rigs were destroyed, together with a large amount of standing timber. The oil fire at West Branch, two miles from here, was extinguished by the rain, and all fires in that direction are now under control. The total loss throughout the field will not fall far short of $1,000,000.