Show TWO DEAD AND MANY MISSING IN DISASTERS INVOLVING OIL Property Prop Loss In Four Places Will Total 18 Millions VESSEL EXPLODES Survivor Describes His Swim In Blazing Waters Vaters By Di TIle The Associated Press I Two persons are aro dead 35 are missing and worth of property prOperly has been been destroyed In four disasters Involving oil ships separated nd properties In two Idely sep sep- sep sep- parts of the country Thirty members of the th crew of 01 the tho Dutch steamer Silvanus are aro missing as a result of a collision with the St Standard Oil tanker In Inthe the MississippI river below belo New Orleans Five Fhe persons were be- be be lived be to have hav been killed and more than two score cor were Injured when another Standard Oil tanker ex ox ex- ex exploded at a New Orleans dry dock drydock suffered A hue buie property loss was suf sut in two oil reservoir r fields i fi-i u ana urea California former Tim The fire in the for for- mer field was rated as the great Kreal est eat petroleum Conflagration In the history of the American oil In- In industry with a probable loss of Two persons were killer killed The loss at Drea was es- es at Both Doth oil ol tank farms were owned by the th Union Oil company BREA Calif April 9 By 9 The Associated Iress A Press A miniature tornado hit the tb southwest portion of this little town early tOday destruction In a 0 a narrow swath but It was headed in a northeasterly direction away from the treat great conflagration that was raging In three reservoirs of the Union Oil company's tank farm near hero here Several men men were caught caught In the fierce wind and and one ono ot of them was been been- slightly injured circulated Numerous reports ports were that from two to three men perIshed when hemmed In by the wall of ot flame flamo that i erupted from reservoir number 10 late last night and set fire to the nearby refining plant after arter an unknown number of If gasoline and distillate tanks with a B capacity of barrels each which lie between the reservoir and refinery had exploded None of the th deaths could be confirmed however but It was wu known that between and men were ere working on a dyke nearby nearby and they were forced to flee for their lives when It boiled over C IN WIRE S-rnE Eight men sent yesterday esterday from the free employment agency at al Long Beach ran into a barbed wire fence while running from the onrushing flames and becoming panic st stricken cn received severe sever cuts before they were able to extricate themselves and reach a a 0 pace place of I I safety Two company trucks and two privately owned ned automobiles are bythe known to have been destroyed by the blazing oil from the thc number 10 reservoir BURNING OUT SAN LUIS IUIS OBISPO Calif April 9 iy By The Th I The Press Th six million barrel oil fire on the Union Oil tank and reservoir farm here which started with the striking of ofa ota a a lightning bolt Wednesday morn morn- morn liC h appeared early carly today to have spent most of Its fury MORE DISASTERS NEW oR ORLEANS DREANS EANS La April 9 By By The Associated Press Press- Press Hundreds of men men connected with shipping and allied Interests interest hero here were vere working today In an effort to determine the lh number of dead and recover reco the bodies of mon lost In IQ two to disasters aboard ships ship In New Orleans and oft off Point A La Hacho yesterday The Dutch steamer Silvanus col- col collided col collided with the th Standard Oil tanker Thomas H II r Wh ler at S 8 clock o'clock lut night near Point A La ThirtY five of the members of the crew of the thc Silvanus were not ac- ac accounted accounted ac accounted counted for today although there was a SL possibility that some somo reach reach- reached reached reached ed shore Fifteen of the officers I and crew were picked up or swam ashore and were placed In hos- hos hospitals hos hospitals at Point A La tache or brought to New Orleans Five Chinese Chines sf amen and two engin- engin eera are in a hospital Most of the missing sailors sailor are Chinese Of 0 44 U persons persona Injured In a I series serle of oC explosions on the Stand Stand- Standard Standard Standard ard Oil tanker 0 O T Waring while the boat was being belne repaired In dry dock at 2 21 2 16 o'clock yesterday attern on all were living JIving today Adolph M tI f Johns Johnson n an electrician was In a SL serious condi condi- conditions lions In a hospital Pending check check- checkIng checking check Ing anI anc recheckinG of the 2 00 men menat menat menat at work either on the tho th 0 O T War War- WarIng War InK Ing or the th nearby docks no an- an announcement an announcement of the th dead has been made although It is believed believed that several lives were lost Five Fhe work work- workmen workmen men have been officially listed as Members r of the crew of the tho Thomas IL II Wheeler escaped In- In InJury in lury In-lury Jury In the crash with the th RII vanus and the th tanker was pro pro- pro to New Orleans The RIl- RIl anus vanus burned to the th waters water's edge and went under P K representing the Dutch company owning the th said today that a state mont ment nt would be b made mad when In- In Information In Information formation ran be b Rained gained from the th captain Captain Weller reported Continued on Pare Page paz THO 00 OIL DISASTERS CLAIM LIVES Continued from rom rage Page age One to the company by radio from Point A La Hache but gave ave no details detail of the lose 1088 of his hl ship The message asked only that his hia wife In Holland be notified that he was I sate safe HIS S if IV TIRE FInE William Van beck fifth engineer of the Silvanus said gald In a hospital here today that he ha believes believe he wu was the last lut la t person to leave the boot boat When I came to the rail ho he said sLid there was wag no one In InsIght Insight sIght and oil was burning In the water all around the ship I threw myself Into the water and I 1 think I swam about abou yard ards most of the time underwater under underwater underwater water for tor when I 1 came up I 1 would I-would would breathe fire tiro and It seemed to me that there was W tire fire every every- everywhere everywhere everywhere where B G Albers fourth engineer also swam wm ashore as u did Petru- Petru Petru second engineer One told of his dash through the hazing water to sa ety I thought tho I 1 could make It un- un under under def un-def der water out of the tho fIre tire area he said but I had to come up and was wag In the fire tire before I could go under again II authorities Albers Alben told Immigration author author- that he Is 1 certain 24 21 Chinese ordinary seamen perished Twenty four of the ChInese I members ot or the crew craw w were re asleep In the tho forecastle said Raid Alberti Albers and I 1 am positive that none of them escaped Ca Captain L S Mckenzie of the Thomas H Wheeler heeler said Bald that after arter the accident ho found that a II hole below the water line had been stove In his ship and that oil In Inthe inthe Inthe the forward compartment was burning He declared that he had to fig tig the tire lire and could give the us no assistance as hi his craft was in grave danger due to his heavy cargo of ot oil |