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Warren (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): article 15
Explosion of an oil well — loss of Life and frightful Scenes. It has already been briefly mentioned that an oil well in Warren county, Pa., took fire a few days ago and exploded with frightful effect, causing the loss of eighteen lives. A letter gives the following additional particulars: A well which had been drilled over two hundred feet by Hawley & Merrick, had struck oil, but the yield being less than expected, the pumping was abandoned and drilling re-commenced. Over one hundred feet further were drilled, when at half-past 5 on Wednesday evening a sudden rush of oil through the five inch and a half tubing threw out the drills and gushed up into the air forty feet above the surface of the ground. At the least computation it was throwing from seventy to one hundred barrels an hour. Above this mass of oil, the gas of benzine rose in a cloud, for fifty or sixty feet. As soon as the oil commenced gushing forth, all the fires of engines in the neighborhood were immediate
Enterprise (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): article 15
ers horribly burned rushed blazing from the hell of misfortune, shrieking and screaming in their anguish. Just within the circle of the flame could be seen four bodies boiling in the seething oil, and one man, who had been digging a ditch to convey away the oil to a lower part of the ground, was killed as he dug, and could be seen as he fell over the handle of his spade, roasting in the fierce element. Mr. H. R. Rouse, of the firm of Rouse, Mitchell & Brown, of the village of Enterprise, Warren county, a gentleman largely interested in wells in this locality, and whose income from them amounted to $1,000 a day, was standing near the pit, and was blown 20 feet by the explosion. He got up and ran about 10 or 15 feet further, and was dragged out by two men, and conveyed to a shanty some distance from the well. When he arrived, not a vestige of clothing was left upon him except his stockings and boots. His hair was burned off, as well as his finger nails, his ears and his eyelids
H. R. Rouse (search for this): article 15
es boiling in the seething oil, and one man, who had been digging a ditch to convey away the oil to a lower part of the ground, was killed as he dug, and could be seen as he fell over the handle of his spade, roasting in the fierce element. Mr. H. R. Rouse, of the firm of Rouse, Mitchell & Brown, of the village of Enterprise, Warren county, a gentleman largely interested in wells in this locality, and whose income from them amounted to $1,000 a day, was standing near the pit, and was blown 20 Rouse, Mitchell & Brown, of the village of Enterprise, Warren county, a gentleman largely interested in wells in this locality, and whose income from them amounted to $1,000 a day, was standing near the pit, and was blown 20 feet by the explosion. He got up and ran about 10 or 15 feet further, and was dragged out by two men, and conveyed to a shanty some distance from the well. When he arrived, not a vestige of clothing was left upon him except his stockings and boots. His hair was burned off, as well as his finger nails, his ears and his eyelids, while the balls of his eyes were crisped up to nothingness. In this condition he lived nine hours--made his will, leaving $100,000 to the poor of Warren county, the s
Dobbs (search for this): article 15
here are the skeletons of five others visible within the circle of flame, and as many are missing — strangers, who came to witness the operations of the wells. It is supposed that a number of others have been burned to a powder, close by the mouth of the well. Some thirty-four were wounded. At the time of the explosion, everything in the neighborhood--sixty or seventy rods — took fire, and shanties, derricks, engine-houses and dwellings, were at once involved in flames.--The boiler of Dobbs' well, eighty rods from the original fire, blew up with a tremendous explosion, killing instantly the engineer, Wesley Skinner, adding another intensity to the evening's horrors. At this time the whole air was on fire. The jet of oil rushing up forty feet was almost a pillar of livid flame, while the gas above it, to the distance of a hundred feet, was flashing, exploding, dashing toward the heavens, and apparently licking the clouds with its furious tongues of heat. All this time, du
Wesley Skinner (search for this): article 15
witness the operations of the wells. It is supposed that a number of others have been burned to a powder, close by the mouth of the well. Some thirty-four were wounded. At the time of the explosion, everything in the neighborhood--sixty or seventy rods — took fire, and shanties, derricks, engine-houses and dwellings, were at once involved in flames.--The boiler of Dobbs' well, eighty rods from the original fire, blew up with a tremendous explosion, killing instantly the engineer, Wesley Skinner, adding another intensity to the evening's horrors. At this time the whole air was on fire. The jet of oil rushing up forty feet was almost a pillar of livid flame, while the gas above it, to the distance of a hundred feet, was flashing, exploding, dashing toward the heavens, and apparently licking the clouds with its furious tongues of heat. All this time, during this tremendous combustion, the sounds of the explosions and burnings were so tremendous and continuous that they coul
George Mitchell (search for this): article 15
t and for a distance of twenty feet, and numbers horribly burned rushed blazing from the hell of misfortune, shrieking and screaming in their anguish. Just within the circle of the flame could be seen four bodies boiling in the seething oil, and one man, who had been digging a ditch to convey away the oil to a lower part of the ground, was killed as he dug, and could be seen as he fell over the handle of his spade, roasting in the fierce element. Mr. H. R. Rouse, of the firm of Rouse, Mitchell & Brown, of the village of Enterprise, Warren county, a gentleman largely interested in wells in this locality, and whose income from them amounted to $1,000 a day, was standing near the pit, and was blown 20 feet by the explosion. He got up and ran about 10 or 15 feet further, and was dragged out by two men, and conveyed to a shanty some distance from the well. When he arrived, not a vestige of clothing was left upon him except his stockings and boots. His hair was burned off, as well a
John Brown (search for this): article 15
a distance of twenty feet, and numbers horribly burned rushed blazing from the hell of misfortune, shrieking and screaming in their anguish. Just within the circle of the flame could be seen four bodies boiling in the seething oil, and one man, who had been digging a ditch to convey away the oil to a lower part of the ground, was killed as he dug, and could be seen as he fell over the handle of his spade, roasting in the fierce element. Mr. H. R. Rouse, of the firm of Rouse, Mitchell & Brown, of the village of Enterprise, Warren county, a gentleman largely interested in wells in this locality, and whose income from them amounted to $1,000 a day, was standing near the pit, and was blown 20 feet by the explosion. He got up and ran about 10 or 15 feet further, and was dragged out by two men, and conveyed to a shanty some distance from the well. When he arrived, not a vestige of clothing was left upon him except his stockings and boots. His hair was burned off, as well as his fin
Hawley (search for this): article 15
Explosion of an oil well — loss of Life and frightful Scenes. It has already been briefly mentioned that an oil well in Warren county, Pa., took fire a few days ago and exploded with frightful effect, causing the loss of eighteen lives. A letter gives the following additional particulars: A well which had been drilled over two hundred feet by Hawley & Merrick, had struck oil, but the yield being less than expected, the pumping was abandoned and drilling re-commenced. Over one hundred feet further were drilled, when at half-past 5 on Wednesday evening a sudden rush of oil through the five inch and a half tubing threw out the drills and gushed up into the air forty feet above the surface of the ground. At the least computation it was throwing from seventy to one hundred barrels an hour. Above this mass of oil, the gas of benzine rose in a cloud, for fifty or sixty feet. As soon as the oil commenced gushing forth, all the fires of engines in the neighborhood were immediate
Merrick (search for this): article 15
Explosion of an oil well — loss of Life and frightful Scenes. It has already been briefly mentioned that an oil well in Warren county, Pa., took fire a few days ago and exploded with frightful effect, causing the loss of eighteen lives. A letter gives the following additional particulars: A well which had been drilled over two hundred feet by Hawley & Merrick, had struck oil, but the yield being less than expected, the pumping was abandoned and drilling re-commenced. Over one hundred feet further were drilled, when at half-past 5 on Wednesday evening a sudden rush of oil through the five inch and a half tubing threw out the drills and gushed up into the air forty feet above the surface of the ground. At the least computation it was throwing from seventy to one hundred barrels an hour. Above this mass of oil, the gas of benzine rose in a cloud, for fifty or sixty feet. As soon as the oil commenced gushing forth, all the fires of engines in the neighborhood were immediat