| Show SHOWER OF COAL OIL Result of Oil Wagons Collision With Telephone Pole It rained coal oil on In the vicinity of ot Third East ast and Second South streets yesterday esterday afternoon This extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary nary occurrence was the result of ora a collision between a Continental Oil Oi Oil wagon and a telephone pole pore The oil wagon was w s in process of dt a runaway and when It came into Ino no con contact contact contact tact with the telephone pole the oil shot Into the air as high as the wires and the oil sprinkling the street got gotwill gotwIll will probably allay the dust nuisance in that vicinity for tor some time The oil oU wagon had been left lett stand standing standIng ing tog In the vicinity of ot First South and Third East ana aff the horses became frightened at something They start started started started ed on a breakneck race down hill hUl and of oC course near Second South the two horses hOles attempted to go on opposite sides of ot a telephone pole The result was that the Hie wagon smashed against the pole with a terrific force torce that crumpled It up like a folding fan The horses went right through their har harness harne harness ness ne s and a stream of ot oil oU shot out of ot the tank as high as the telephone runaway and when it came in con the affair The horses after running to Second South stopped and turning around surveyed the destruction destruction destruction tion they had caused When an examination was made it was found that the wagon had struck wires it Is claimed by those who wit had been shifted two Inches In tha ground The oil oU wagon was a total wreck |
