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Show OIL BARGES AND TUG IN FLAMES PORT ARTHUR, Texas, June 26. Two lives were lost, hait a dozen or more men were injured, some seriously, serious-ly, three oil barges and one tug were burned to the water's edge, and about 10,000 barrels of oil, two large warehouses ware-houses and more than 500 feet of wharves were destroyed as a result or. an explosion, followed by a fire, in the harbor and water front today. The loss wns estimated at about 300,000 Captain Frank Weber of the barge Humble and an unidentified man lost their lives in an explosion aboard the Humble, where the fire originated. |