Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-14 | Page 10 | Rumania Oil Wells Destroyed by Fire

RUMANIA OIL WELLS DESTROYED BY FIRE NEW YORK, Jan. 13. Confirmation of cable reports from London that the srreater part of the oil wells around Ploechti, Rumania, were destroyed, and that stocks of oil on hand were burned prior to the occupancy of the district by the Germans, was brought here today to-day by a party of Americans, former employees of Rumanian oil companies, who were passengers on the steamship Stockholm from Gothenburg, Sweden. John S. Campbell of Bakersfield, CaL, one of the party, said it would be many months before the wells can be made productive again.