Show UGE GAS WELL ON A ROW SHOCK M CISCO BOME IS NOW IN RAMES I 1 gasser in the west blo blow sin saturday y ignited by lightning monday and is now a roaring inferno on ont ai the greatest EM gas flows in the teil state states which blew in batur ay morning at a depth of 1960 feet ft t the I 1 tah tull oil refining company P a ell U ab about 0 ut ten milca miles northwest of isco b bunt into flames monday ev ning at 8 1 15 as thoi them result of a rok ke of during an electra il term the immense passer aich lh vainly had been ting IC to control for two day days nor to the fire is now a 1108 roaring ting in rno erno and weeks ecks and perhaps months ill 11 elapse before it can be brought ader ider control end the fire extin dished the burning gas flow can be men seen t night for a distance of forty miles or r ten miles on all sides of the well e country Is illuminated at night A d the roar of the mighty gasser can heard hard many mile miles away the ames me reach a height of about four undred feet steps are being taken by the utah I 1 I 1 and its patent company the mid I 1 st Kefin ang to extinguish extin gUith the mes es A battery batter of boilers will be 0 night in and an attempt will be ide ade to drown dron the fire with steam t will A ill take perhaps a week to get e boilers on the ground in the annee the gasser will burn un eciek and it is probable that by I 1 it t me the vast pressure pre ssuie will di mh somewhat rhe the arge standard ng and dernek tre re des destroyed troed by the flames names within abort time after the lightning lightnr lightn ng ii had cited the accumulated gas go the ac ar I 1 toss loss through the he burning of perty is estimated estima tat at oooo 3 but e heaviest losses nell be sustained fight ng the fire as the expense ill 1 be immense the he big gasser blew in at 2 arday morning drillers hickman nd draper were on tour the flow ame ie in gradually according to anil hickman but within five minutes e gas gag had torn a ca cavern ern at the boti of the well ell and large quantities f rocks were hurled above the der ck tearing away timbers and pla play y g havoc with the rig the drillers ere e powerless erlen to copt with the aaion end and it was decided to await gitil 1 the flow had abated somewhat afore ire attempting to control the well ow v that the gasser has caught on matter matters are further complicated he e times independent editor vis visa e the well sunday sunda the roar of the capling aping iping gas could be heard for a n dir distance stance away and within a e bulli bards anh of the ng rig the sound was el fening engg occasionally rocks would Y from the well ell to sanke on the rown m block of the derrick and be lown II 11 to dust by the force of their r as ent driller bickman kroan stated that the dessure wre generated by the escaping as was around 2500 pounds and bat the flow would measure cubic cubio feet per da day the pas of hydrocarbon hydro carbon origin and lell galine in odor it was stated T the he drillers that the gas if it brought control ont rol would produce from 0 0 0 barrels of gasoline per day by 4 installation of a topping plant on 1 monday short shortly before the asser er caught on f fire ire a test tea of the 0 was wa made by gauge and ft it meas red beti between eer 60 and 70 million cubic beet per twenty four hours th the e leisure ure had subsided considerably ince th the e pe peak ak of the flow saturday many my of the prominent off officials of I 1 ile etab I 1 tab oil and midwest refining relining ala arrived at the well mon and were ere at the camp when the tiete e elec electrical electric tricel ej storm passed over ever he county that evening at 8 15 clock k as the offic official ialo were looking t the rig a bolt of lightning passed ver the will all and the accumulated age immediately ignited within he traction of f a second it seemed as it the ie entire heaven heavens were on fife fire he flame descended onto brito the derck errick which eoon soon burst into flames binately ina tely the boiler boder house had ell moved several hundred feet from the rig ig ten da days s before aa as a 31 conary measure me tsure and it escaped the ae the bunk house and cook house te ame distance away and are safe e hames flames have crept down almost to me e casing head and the burning resembles s an n immense blow the fi fire v at the casing head is alue and generates intense heat last it night tight a telephone message t rem cisco mated that the gas flow uy jg ix subsiding but it t flares up to immense scores tea of people are visiting the ell ito witness the right tight continued ort page eight tight mii HUGE HUSE GAS WELL ON FIRE HE continued from first page and oil men are flocking to the alto field in search of acreage in MOW ie of the wit act ella character m C t e r of th gas it is believed certain that oil will be en countered in the field preparations are being made to drill wells m ells lower lov er on the structure to escape the immense g pas as flow flou brought in n by the ther utah ell it is a reported authoritatively by oil men and geologists that he cisco gasber is one of the largest if not the largest ever encountered west meat me at of the missi mississippi s ippi nver river the future drilling policy of the utah oil in the field will not be de ter mined until the gas fire is extin and the flow brought under control if it is fea sibel to deepen the hole the test may be continued to the lower loer sands before the ras gas flow ten nn b be controlled it will be necessary to lenient cement in the 12 inch casing as ag ic it is not anchored and would be blown from the well ell if capped now the pas gas is beli belied eed to come from t the he I la it t kota sand A sand se seventeen enteen feet in thickness iving thirteen feet above the gas sand was previously penetrate and wa was thought to be the dakota sand Ordin Or dinani aril on the out droppings crop pinKs pings in the region the distance between the dakota and sands 1 i from 40 to CO feet |