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Show MILLION-DOLLAR BLAZE AMONG OIL DERRICKS IN MM ABOUT BEAUMONT - 3EAlTM02irr, TEX.', APIIIL 13. A FIXE ON SPINDLE TOP, WHICH STARTED AT, 1 O'CXOCX.THIS irOENINO, DID DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT SHOM $800,000 TO. $ 1,000,000. TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE DEfcBICfcS WERE LOST. TWO HUNDRED BIOS WERE ON THE PS0- 131.-. ;.u;iri;cii alai.t;'at the caldwell CIL CCHPAl, a .tL. THE FLY WII32L OF THE ENGINE STRUCK TXL2; LAmTLHIJ ,AD ICimZD THE DERRICK, . AND THE FLAMES SPREAD, WITH TREMENDOUS RAPIDITY, THREE BLOCKS, N0S. 36, 37 AND 33, BEING IN ASHES BY. 3 O'CLOCK. NO EFFORT WAS MADE TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE, FOB XT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET WITHIN A HUNDRED FEET OF THE FLAMES. NO ONE WAS INJURED. . IT IS' ESTIMATED THAT TWO-THIBDS OF THE COMPANIES IN THS BUSSED JJI3T2ICTS WILL BE UNABLE TO RECOVER FROM Tin! DAMAGE HOZTZ BY THE FIRE. ' . |