Show BLAZING K OIL DEFIES EFFORTS OF FIREMEN BE Hundred Thousand Dollars a n aDay aDay Day Going Up in Flames t MUST BURN ITSELF OUT GOT OUTI I FIVE K AND AiD MAN MANY MA TN IN IN THE EXPLOSIONS Philadelphia Aug A 30 The fire which wic began yesterday afternoon at the works W of the Atlantic Refining company at Point Breeze in the southwestern SOC see section tion of the city is still horning burning fiercely tonight and Chief Baxter of the city fire department has bas given up hope of saving any of the property The one hope of or the t e officials and the firemen was wa in their ability to pump oil from the tanks not yet reached by the flames into reserve tanks in an isolated section of the yard An explosion late this afternoon ear cat carried ried nod away way a the pumping machinery and nothing remains now apparently but butto butto butto to permit the conflagration to burn un until until Until til all an the oil oit is consumed COD umed It is believed tonight that the five lives lost in the explosion lon last night complete the list The Dead John McCullom engine eD ne James Balies Elles engine company 49 41 John Daugherty truck company No NoL L 9 Frank Davis DaYIs truck company No N 9 Alexander an employee of or the Atlantic Refining company In the explosion which occurred this afternoon fifteen persons were injured lI jur seriously enough to be taken to hos hospitals hospitals hospitals and about forty others othen were treated on the scene by the ambulance surgeons sur the story of the fire may be thus summarized summarised All AH of or those report reported ed as missing after the explosion last night have been accounted counted a for The roll of injured amounts to more than Many of these are trivial cases not taken to hospitals A few are se so serious serIous rious noun and may prove fatal The fire is still raging and is 15 eating up oil oU at the rate of a 8 day ac according according according cording to the estimate of President Lloyd of or the Atlantic Refining com corn company i pany Firemen and officials are pow powerless powerless erless V The fire must literally burn itself Itsel out The cooperage shop has been swept away and in Its is destruction forty men narrowly escaped death The tanks of are going Earthworks have been thrown up to keep the Schuylkill river from becoming flooded with blaz bIas blazing blazIng bIasIng ing oil The firemen say lY they are are working in inthe inthe Inthe the dark There is danger all aU around aroun them they say and they do not know where the danger spots are The loss 1085 can only be estimated Of Officials Officials Officials of the company refuse to make mak makany any statement as to the quantity of f foil oil and naphtha contained in inthe inthe inthe the various tanks already destroyed and aud those that cannot camlot escape destruction destruction destruction tion Insurance urance men and firemen early today said the loss would not be less than but since then great quantities of ot refined V petroleum and have been consumed and sev several several several eral tanks have been rendered useless usel s ay hr the flames |