Show f A OF OL OIL 4 IN FLAMES l lB I I B Burning FI Fluid UI d Runs uns 0 Over er Larni ad and Water Vater 4 LOSS OVER OYER I L U tip BUILDINGS AND SIRS SPREADS TO SKIPPING I 1 New York York July uh i than two I and a hal half million dolar dollars dam damage b has already ben been done and a number or of I persons have been severely bure burned by a fr fire that started In the works or of tM time I Standard on Oil cm company a at Constable HOOk Hook Bayone Bayonne X N S J earl early this morn in lag Twentythree Jarg large tanks ff fit teen teeD union Tank line Une cr ears the crude oi oil the he compound sweating cr plant Hungarian a and a sa loon hate been utterly an a s lon have and the content contents of twentythree huge oi oil tanks is still burning buring In a a S sea or of fame flame Covering over oer acres The crash or of a lightning bl bolt as it struck one of the connecting lne lines at 1245 this morning was the sig signal nat nal for the outburst of fr fire Instantly a a gat great mas mass of tae flame appeared above tank tanks No 4 6 and 16 and like a a nash flash flew in aU all directions The These e tanks are tank ar tanks and contained 1600 gallons of oil each Tank Tank No 6 was spilt In two Te The flaming 01 oil immediately ly set et the thene ne new refinery on fr fire and swept acrS across the railroad tracks to the National Storage com company pan setting fr lime to the trestles and track The whole mass of fae flame leaped into the air for hundreds of fet feet and a as the blazing ol oil leaped and spread town down on thE the ground it cr car ned ried the flames ames with it it This sea ea of fame flames rn ran around the Hungarian tenement houes houses In tire the rear of the tank tanks The occupant occupants bre bare ly had time to get out of the biding building ale alive and they rushed over the gound ground to esa escape the bazing blazing sa sea that wa was chasing them faster than an a ny prairie fre freAU fire fireAll AU All about the yards the flames ars th Is spread and a nd in a short while ten tanks were ere buring b The Byonne Bayonne fr fire depart nent ment s wa was almost H Heavy av volumes of smoke moke s which frequently ignited like huge h uge suspended charge charges of magnesium d rifted across New York by bay and the sea s ea of blazing 01 oil was steadily creping creeping towar t oward the docks of the oi oil work works Here lay l ay over oer fcO fifty vessels including tank I s teamer and barges Lines were made mad fat f ast to thee these and thEY they were pulled out Into nto i the bay bayThe bayThe The fames flames had crept down to t th waters eg edge and even upon th the water i were geat great patches or of burning buring 01 o il that set fre fire to some o of time the dock docks The T he tugboat captains did what they c to save the pier piers and then forced a semicIrcle around the buring burning oi oil a out log logs to prevent i it from s Fifteen 01 oil cr cars or of the Union Tank Jine ine l and four car cars of the Central Rai Rail rd r oad of New Jersey were bure burned The new n ew refinery whIch was partially the de s troyed wa was commence commenced in 1896 and cost ost c 1500 and since that time many improvements have ben been made About or of the plant is In Ia r The area bure burned over i is 1 as r in ID extent Two tank tanks exploded tonight short shortly a fter it 10 These two tank tanks wi aill in c rease the loss b |