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Show A WILD SU-Mi 0I: I KLNZY, PEOPLE WaTCMiNQ N Oil FIRE H( SUD DENLY INVtLOPtD IN FLAME. rtnieelna ' Nwphllia al IMI.lMira lnnrM ! iiHrarl l,elp, a.-uip-tlve I'ee I ! nl HhiiK M III Die. The Shrriilnn yard of the Tan Handle Han-dle railroad at ritUhiirg, wat tbt acene Tiitilav evening of Ihe inol dlaaatrona eipUminn and Bra knowo In thla Motion for many yeara. A acore of Uvea were lo.l and nhoiil 300 per-eont per-eont were ao badly burned that accord-Ini accord-Ini to Ihe Judgment of phvtlciana lu attendance 7S per rent, of them will die from tha eltecla of their Injurlea. Tha rente of the cata.t rophe wan thr eiploalnnnfa train of naphtha care, which were being awitched at the yard. In the awilching tha rear ear teleaeoped a car forward. The leaking naphtha ignlled f'uui a awllch light, eauting an eiplonlon which threw the lUa.ee r.O fret high. The llrnl car of naplilha etploded about 4 40 o cliK-li. and the apectarla eoon atlractrd a large crowd on tha atrrela lining the hllla on bolh aldee of and peiallfl to the railroad. The aer-ond aer-ond car eaplodrd about S o'clock, but It waa 0:li o'clock when tliree more cara of lite demlly atnfT went up wilb a roar that could he heard for milra and tha work of ilc.trnciion really began. be-gan. The euccennlve eaplonlotia hail healeil III air to eiieh an ealenl that befort Ihe third eaplonlon many were rendered ren-dered nnconnclonn by llieealieine heal and tha ganeoua fiimea ami were belnn carried away when thelorrenlof llaiut awept over Ihe eiclted crowd. There waa au awful Ininh for a moment. mo-ment. Then followed a tcene of fren-jr. fren-jr. Men and women, their rlnlhln( ablaie, their facea anirrhed and bllat-ered bllat-ered and their hair burned off thell heade. ran wildly alirlrklng hither and thither, only lulent on etceplng from that awful furnace of tire. Some gava vent to frenjleil apiala to kill them and put them out of their mlirry, and little children, with their curly lockt ar-d liglit aiimmer clolhlng email pillar, pil-lar, of Hre. crleil plteoii.ly aa they were awepl along by the tide of burning burn-ing liuinaully. |