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Show EVEN THE CREEKS ARE BLAZING NOW Burning Oil From Uncontrolled Uncon-trolled Well in Indian Territory Communicates to Streams. SAPULPA, I. T., March 27. The gas well two miles east, of here, which caught fire Saturday, is still burning fiercely. After fourteen days of work the well was capped. But the great volume of gas found another way out through the crevices and for half a mile it spread open the earth. At one place a hole three feet wide and twenty feet long was torn. Then the gas caught fire and has been burning ever since. At one place a sheet of flame twenty reet long and fifteen feet high is blazing. Tons of rock and shale were thrown from the eracks and the constant tremble of the earth ia frightening the farmers and oil operators oper-ators in the vicinity. Great pools of oil upon the creek and in tue ravines also are on fire and there are so signs of abatement. . |