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Show TAMPICO OIL WELLSJCRNIi One of Largest Oil Wells in World in Flames Glare Seen 100 Miles. i New York, Sept. 28 An area, ap proximately eleven miles In extent surrounding El Aguia, one of the larg eat oil wells in the world, located in the Tamplco, Mexico, district Is a mass of smoke and flames, according to officers of the steamship Esper finza, which reached here today from Mexican ports The well wras capped down shortly after the capture ot Tamplco by the Constitutionalists and Beveral months ago It was noticed thet the Bubterrannean pressure was causing the oil to seep up all around the well This seepage, catching lire from lightning or some other cause, has spread the flames until now the I glare by night and the smoke b day I can be seen for nearly 100 miles Officers of the Esperanza said that the light at night resembles the glure I from a great city and during the day the smoko clouds look like an ap preaching storm Several weeks ago Held artillery was brought dp from Tamplco and an effort made to shoot the cap off the v. ell, in the hope that the pressure would bo rrllr-wrl but the effort was unsuccessful. oo |