| Show FIFTY KILLED IN II TANK EXPLOSION Cat Car of Gasoline Blows Up i Causing Causin j Property i I r. r Damage at Ardmore i I Ardmore Okla S Sept pt 27 A A spark sparl from a workmans workman's hammer Ignited a I tank car o of gasoline here lato late tolla today and from the ruins o of two t elt city blocks the fires which followed ono thirty razed b by the he resulting explosion an and bodies had been recovered late tonight Fifty persons ere believed to have been crushed to de deith deth th under falling walls or burned to loath while pinned pinnell in the debris Sear Search h amon among the ruins was ns proceeding tonight the workers centering their efforts eort on the tan tangled led maSs mass of or lumber and antl bricks which hurl had been the tho department store of ot Maddin I Co where herp It was feared the bodies l of ot many girl and w women men shoppers and employees would bo he found T The e property damage was estimated at A score of or fires tires caused b by tho flamIng lam flam- laming Ing gasoline which was vas thrown for tor blocks when tho the car exploded with a I. I terrific detonation were vere got under control after two hours' hours desperate work b by the small local fire tire aided aided aid aid- ed b by ever every able aile bodied man In in the tho city not a assisting tho the Injured The city Immediately was placed un under er martial 1 law lav VI intire Block Wrecked The explosion wrecked an nn entire block of oC buildings In the heart of or town to and precipitated a a. scene scone of ot panic Alon Along Main street from the tho station to the hotel e cr every building was sa demolished and anti on tho the opposite side of the street the plant of ot Swift Co a 1 two story rooming house and anti cafe care an and other bu business buildings were razed Over O the splintered remains of or these buildings and for or blocks 8 around the lansing flaming gasoline was thrown startIng startIng starting start- start Ing a R score of ot fires Not in window In iii the tho ho city escaped the force of ot the explosion rind and the entire en- en tire population popl sensing the lie disaster hurried Into the th streets RescUe parties quickly were organ Telegraph and telephone communication com corn was sever severed for or five CI hours hour rind 1 k H was Impossible to obtain aid from the Outside World Two hundred Injured InJure wore were being cared for tor tonight It wa was feared some soma of or thorn thom would die While sonic some of t the dead had not been Identified at midnight ht It was believed beHoved all aU were townspeople and that the tho guests of ot tho We and Love LO hotels and rooming houses which ere destroyed ye escaped I I Identified Dead d. d The Tho following dead have been Identified Iden Itlen- tHIN if ted I Charles Smith former policeman M. M I K E. Atkins dr moll I A A. A C. C Gould huckster r Breston Dreston Blaze Santa Sarta F Fo Fe fla flagman Ruben nuben Warren arren farmer Tom Gilkey S S. S Twyford T rf T. T I 1 E. E Sims Santa Fe flagman Ira Woods Wood refinery employee Will Ill Graham refinery employee |
