Show B L A Z E I 1 S S I 1 1 V A I 1 A sul I 1 4 A I 1 rn r n I 1 1 great lake of oil is burning in central 0 mexico 1 chicago july 11 A dispatch from the city of mexico says i A lake of oil cg coveting vering an area of moro more than one square mile and of unknown depth in ia the state of vera cruz is on alre it has been burning for five fivel days and has created the wildest terror among the natives of that section ahe blaze is seen tor for more than miles at sea according to navigators who have arrived at vera cruz and Taw tampico pico the scene of the fire Is about 75 miles southeast of tampico near the son san Gernon river it is remote aiom any rall railroad road an oil field was being devel developed aped at that place by the pennsylvania oil company which Is IB composed of pittsburg men tho the company had nad bored a number of wells and all of 0 them were flowing oil in large quantities the product was being placed in earthen storage tanks preparatory to shipping A careless workman accidentally set fire to one of the wells and tho the flames were communicated to the underground under der ground reservoir of oil A terri terrific explosion occurred which uplifted the earths barths surface throughout gnout the whole field the explosion was heard board 76 75 miles distant the oil company lost worth of machinery and the oil which has been burned will total millions of barrels the whole oil field ft eld will be destroyed B rik B 1 I I 1 T B I 1 ftfe ABB AMERICAN TEAM TEA 6 1 r r r A I 1 aall ail I 1 16 letlo fall knope N r OUR MARKSMEN ARE VICTORS AT BISLEY 11 I 1 Lu eshner and marttn martin lead all ail the worlds crack n A I 1 sweeping Trl triumph I 1 bisley Bt sley july ll 11 the great international team match shoot the most important event of the olympic rifle contests has been won by america and the american mar marksmen komen thus become j the chim champions of the world the I 1 american aggregate score was 2553 that of the british team 2486 while I 1 the canadian score was 2439 starting with a lead at the end nd of I 1 the first range the american team never was displaced dlo placed and with the exception of the contest st at the yard range they scored higher totals for each of the six distances distan ceis than the finest teams that canada and all europe could put in the field in the individual aggregate the americans always were prominent first Lue Lu ahner eshner and martin leading all the worlds horldt crack riflemen many experts consider co nedr the outcome a victory not only for the men but for the rines rifles they declare that the short new springfield diflo proved zsolt a far better arm than the now new short leo enfield in use us G in I 1 n the t heb british service s 0 rylee tho the americans also won the revolver team competition the magnificent performances of the americans made them p public I 1 favorites I 1 |