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Show Hon Gelloos of 'Oil Explodes Four Men Burned to Death and Four Others Seriously Injured. NEW YORK. Dec. 13. By an explosion explo-sion and burning of one million gallons of petroleum on a Standard Oil company's com-pany's barge at sea off Long Branch, N. J., Sunday afternoon four men were burned to Ceath. The dead are: CAPT. C. P. STOKES. A. SALTS, ENGINEER. AL. BRANDT. FIREMAN. THOMAS JOHNSON. One man Is mlsylng. H. Hansen, a sailor, had shipped for the trip, but it was not known whether he was on board. Four survivors of the crew of the burned barge wore brought to this port and are Jr. a hospital suffering front burns. The steel barge No. Dl and another barge were In tow of a tug bound from Philadelphia. Something Interfered with the flow of water from the fresh water tank and Engineer Sale and Fireman Brandt went below to Investigate. Inves-tigate. An explonlon followed, whether of gas or a boiler, Is unknown. In a twinkling the barge vas ablaze from su-m to stern. The tug which had the barges In tow wont alongside the burning barge and took off four seamen, but the blase had r-pread so fast that the others could not bo rescued. The cause of the fire on the barge has not been explained. None of the s.urvIvors was ln a condition to talk todny, to-dny, but It was learned that there was an explosion and burning oil was thrown over the vessel. Tho barge had on board 21,000 barrels or 1,000,000 gallons gal-lons of oil. |