Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-02-22 | Page 1 | Two Killed in Oil Explosion on Schuylkill

TWO KILLED IN OIL EXPLOSION ON L PH PHILADELPHIA E Feb 21 With With a. a I. I blast that shook windows In Inmany inmany I many sections of ot the city gallons allons of ot crude oil aboard a Grew Grew- Grew I Levick company barge exploded today at the municipal garbage disposal disposal dis dis- dis- dis I plant in southwest Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia killing two men and injuring six others I As bl blazing zing oil drenched the vicinIty vicinity vicin vicin- vicin-I vicin ity and swept the surface of the Schuylkill river a a. Baltimore Ohio railroad train on a bridge I yards yard south raced to safety with a number of windows shattered by bythe bythe the concussion Its passengers es escaped escaped Injury A shower of or heavy steel fragments fragments frag frag- I ments from the shattered barge pelted down on adjoining industrial i plants as their emploY s rushed out of the buildings