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Show 00 DEAD IN OIL TOWN FIRE CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. j.j ul! Eight hundred persons were reported (lead or missing today in a lire which swept through r(ie oil town of La Gunillas on Lake Maiacnibo. La Gunillas was built on pnes-over pnes-over water which was coated air inch thick with oil. , Eye witnesses said that nm"i rose to great heights and spread rapidly. Victims, trapped by Hie' flames, jumped screaming" nuo the burning oil covered water of the lake. - Reports said that 200 persons were burned to death when a lighter aboard which they were attempting to escape capsized. At least 200 houses were destroved-and destroved-and many ot the victims were trapped in the flaming shacks, It was believed that no for eigners were killed since La1 Gunillas was inhabited chielly by workers who lived in tax-tree' rent-free shacks. ' |