Show TELEGRAPHIC MEWS i OIL > AFLd1E Destructive Fir at tbe Standard Stan-dard 011 Works Cleveland 40n Kingsbury run at Wilson avenue crossing in the oil refinery re-finery of Tburman Teagle oil leaking from one of the stills ran into the run and as that was unusually high the oil came to tbe boilTboueo where it ignited ig-nited and went off with a great explosion early this morning The still also cugbt fire and the contents went into the run In a few minutes the surface of the water was covered with Hames trom Wilson Wil-son avenue to Broadway The blazing oil made its way in the center of the stream now 150 feet wide directly toward to-ward tbe Standard Oil works and half a dozen engines were stationed on the banks ready to save the building endangered en-dangered Six thousand dollars worth of oil burned at the works of Tburran do Tesgle and in the Republic work which caught from the running oil ThIS burning burn-ing stream pasted the psraffiee works of Merriam Morgan where the fire caught but the small flume extinguished ex-tinguished it before harm was done The oil and water together had now risen to such a hoigbt as to corer the alarm boxj at the Standard works and render it useless The Standard people were ordered by fire officers to extinguish every fire about the works Notwithstanding I Notwith-standing this about lu 30 threo heavy explosions scattered many of the Standard Stand-ard tanks into fragments and spread the oil in all directions Tank No 7 caught fire a moment later rs well aa Tank 2 both of which were of immense size Ten minutes later the gasoline tanks containing contain-ing 3 000 barrels exploded with a report heard for miles Instantly a number of wooden structures caught fire and a moment later a newlybuilt pump house costing 8000 was ablaze In less than fifteen minutes two more tanks exploded A dozen small reports told of exploded reservoirs or pipes From that time till nearly 9 the ficht went on the firemen doing what they could to save property in the yard while the Standard employees em-ployees were fighting the fire away from I the river At 9 one of the largest tanks exploded with terrific force Instantly the flames shot up and lighted in every quarter Engines were playing upon the storage bouses at the east of the yard while workmen were rolling away bar rels of oil to a place of safety Fully 100000 barrels were burned The loss is estimated at 260009 There was a rainstorm rain-storm during the progress of the fire LaterThe fire at the Standard Oil Works is nearly exhausted The scene resembles re-sembles chaos Two years it is bought will be needed to restore the works to their condition of two days ago Colonel Jayne treasurer of the company thinks not more than 50 000 jarele of oil burned and says the loss cannot be stated until the fiord subsides and a careful examination ii i made Iha fire is still burning in spots and the flames disclose the wrecksot ton receiving vat twenty or thirty tills and other small works 300000 is probably a moderate estimate of the loss |