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Show OIL IN STREETS Texas Town Destroyed By Spectacular Fire-Searching Fire-Searching for Bodies. W ICHITA FALLS. Tex , Nov. 10. Searchers for bodies today delved further fur-ther into the ruins of a spectacular fire at Waggoner City, a small oil inv. n near here, which y esterday su' fared property losses estimated at $1. 000,000 when lightning exploded thirty -I eight Ltj'JU-barrel tanks of oil and a I stream of the burlning fluid poured I down the main streets, setting fire to everything with which It came into I contact As far as known only one person, an aged man. supposed to be jlrom Atlanta, G;:.. was killed, but 'many other persons were burned and upwards of 1,0.00 were made homeless About fifty business buildings and residences were destroyed and hun-dredfl hun-dredfl who were living In tents lost I 'heir places of shelter In addition to personal belongings. |