Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1901 — BLAZING OIL BURNS HUNDRED. [ARTICLE]

BLAZING OIL BURNS HUNDRED.

Philadelphia Fire Claim! More Vlctlnw and Still Threatens. By the collapse of a burning oil tank at the Atlantic Refining company’s plant at Point Breeze, Philadelphia, where a fire has been raging, about 100 persons, firemen, employes of the company and spectators, were more or less severly burned. Most of the cases were treated on the ground by ambulance surgeons, but a few of them were considered sufficiently serious to necessitate the removal of the victims to the hospitals. It was shortly after 2 o’clock when the tank careened and fell, the heavy iron sheathing separating at the seams, precipitating great quantities of blazing petroleum into Passayunk avenue. There was a wild stampede among the people In the vicinity, but many of them were badly burned by the fiery spray which fell among them. Dikes were hastily thrown up by the firemen and employes of the company, and the blazing fluid was confined to an area of about two blocks on Passayunk avenue.