Show BURNED ED IN T THE WATER ATER Dreadful Experience of r Three Men Ien With Wih Burning Burning- Oil 01 The Te river In Jn flames was t the spectacle spectacle spec spec- spee that startled the te neighborhood of Point Breeze near Philadelphia on the let 1st and destroyed the wrecking tug Maryland besides causing the death of an oil 01 works I It was wa a a few minutes after 5 o'clock when Al A- A Albert bert Crumback William and Warren Wan ll employee of the Standard Oil 01 Company pushed off o. o in a row rowboat boat from the wharf of the tho Point Breeze Gas Ga Company and started to cross the on 01 their thet way ay to their homes In West Philadelphia They were about halt half way across when Hill nm who ho was wa steering the boat drew a cl cigar ar from his h pocket and l proceeded to t light It I. I This Thi done dono he threw the still stU burning buring match math into the tho water Instantly there was 1 an explosion The water was a covered with wih oil oU and benzine that had escaped from a a le leaking king pipe on the cast cat bank bank and it needed but a a spark to cause caus Jt lt to t bur burst t into a se sea of fire fre The Tc three young men found themselves e enveloped en en- eloped s-eloped In escape which they tey sprang Jute Into int the river Then they were in a worse wore plight than they had bad been before The Te fire tre scorched their faces be and they tey could only es escape cs- cs cs cape it by the water After they tey had bad struggled ed in this thi way for several minutes Crumback found he be was wa becoming becoming be be- be coming exhausted and that his only hope of saving sang his life Ue lay ly In regaining the boat This Thi he be succeeded succeed in doing and nd then turned to t the te aid of his hi companions He le managed to t pull pul HUber hillier into Int the boat but before belore they could reach their companion he ho had sunk from view The two then made mado for the shore I where willing hands bans were stretched out to save tave them and they were fer removed to St. St I Agnes hospital hospit Hills Hill's body has ha not been re re- re re covered The fire tre spread rapidly and before the crew of ot the tho wrecking vessel Maryland could cast castoff cat off o. o from their moorings they found themI them them- them selves surrounded by flames and their vessel ressel on fire tre They could do lo io nothing to t save saTe the boat bat and were ere obliged to t jump Into the river t I and swim ashore to w save saye their lives 1 The gas gasworks gasworks works work wharf caught fire and was wa badly damaged damaged dam dam- aged before the firemen fremen succeeded ed In extinguishing extin the te flames |