Show N PERISH IN 1 AKE KE OF FIRE T TEXAS WEll ELL Jr kers k ers en Caught ug h t in In r Fiery lery l last st as Gusher Ignites IS' IS Burn- Burn odies dies Smolder in t. t C. C Corsicana ig 19 Oil 01 1 N Near ear I IEE FREE EE UN UNIDENTIFIED UNIDENTIFIED D I I I i fN N AMONG VICTIMS les ames I Visible for Fifty tiles flies All Efforts to tomother tomother tomother mother Out Fire Have o Far Been Futile t L' L m A Texas Texa May ty 10 Blip By Bl Identified bodies ip rr Thirteen e skeletons smoldering In a at t fire teet feet was the wn wn toll of death from the yesterday esterday of the gusher of the I K Hughes Development com com- 1 n No r-o. 1 well he fire tire still stUl burning fiercely toW to- to W R visible fifty miles mUes reports 0 Isaid saId The sr smoke extended I a from the sC scene e of th the disaster en miles l awa away dead Hicks Wortham o t Texas fead I d ci driller iller Allen Corsicana field EUIn su- su In ident JO jp T Turner rn r N Norris rr s Miss f in Phillips 35 Kerens Texas Texas anies ies Phillips 32 Kerens Texas iL lax x 30 ZO o. o Kerens Kerena Texas 1 ife e c. c Co Cook k 30 Kerens s Owens 30 Kerens T Texas 1 ack acl Cooper Co Corsicana Texas red ed Craig Corsicana Texas I P P. Sheek Dallas J C. C Cooper Corsicana Byrd Corsicana unidentified skeletons Irs Byrd wife of one of the tho vic- vic IS lost her brother 12 D. r q Cooper Cooner I iri In the fire tire Ven the blast came sixteen It known of ot t tie the e fifty odd men In crews and a a. g were suck sucked d in by the sheet flame bout people watching therk therk the therk rk of ot the drilling crews gave ac- ac ints of or the 1 me of the workmen were hurled ton the ground others tried to of the thee ep away from the spread e JK IlK Hughes head of the devel- devel ment company said In nt f thA crew which Was i Il lieving ving 1 g. g th the tha y d day crew crew at the well come from Mexia a few tew ofis of or urs before Other members orland is land and a a. roustabout crew working ar the well were reported miss miss- confusion and the Sin the general list makes it Impossible how many ar arad are Just for forThe and unaccounted ad missing venturing every now The groups 1 id then near th the pool of f yellowish i few tew not without a fits fife are with stricken close omen drawn eyed only to re- re peering wide c ces cis s and eat with covered faces aU ns of horror T aid work here Is hindered om the crowded traffic on the lit lit- trail serving as etmore than cow road for tor the rescue art artles arties ea PARK FROM STRIKING CAUSE BLAZE Texas May 10 By A A. PU P P. I U B B. B a representative I If f h J. J K Hughes Development I caught fire tire tiree whose gusher e esterday erda was an o eye ye witness to toi burned sixteen field i blast which Simmons was ork rs to a crisp th derrick floor but escaped by tile IlIe lie said th tha men were engaged In m off off the control head and put put- ut- ut on a gate valve iii tI was standing on the derrick loor h waste to the work work- r rs ri io to wip io out ut of i their eyes the thell ll lift which was as spewing from the alve Mr Ir Simmons said When Wien Wient t to valve fell back I saW caw a tiny Uny Park caused bv by friction of the met met- sensing di disaster ster Ian I Ian and a d ai an from the well Just a moment etore the tho explosion which sent Bowers of ot burning oil in lii every di- di It It seemed as though I was benI beby be be- Ing nI Pursued by tho great burst of ot n flames anes es when a terrific gust of heat swept past me tir Mr lr said a small email of ot Mr Hughes was standing side and nd escaped by running A st standing near the tho derCk der- der rii Ck evidently did not see or heed park t and was enveloped in the rh flames his eS-his his skeleton now floating In if Pool of ot liquid fire The e fire was plainly discernible some thirty miles away |