Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1889 — OIL FEVER AT TERRE HAUTE. [ARTICLE]

OIL FEVER AT TERRE HAUTE.

A New Well of an Ketimated Capacity es One Thousand Barrels Per Dag. Tremendous excitement was created at Terre Haute Monday night by striking oil at a depth es 1,900 feet. When oil was reaehed. a jet sported up sixty feet into the air, and a heavy flow, six inches in diameter, begaa. The pressure was so great it could not be cut off, and in a short time the ground for a square around the well was flooded several inches. The drillers say it is the biggest well they ever struck. Tkrfe estimated flow is one thousand barrels per day. Fears are entertained that the flooded ground will catch fire from the sparks of passing locomotives.