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Show GIANT GAS WELL I NEAR CHEYENNE IS ! AFIRE; ONE KILLED CHETBNNfi. Wo.. net. 5. I ne man Is dead, four are dying I and flames unchecked are shooting shoot-ing two hundred and fifty icet into the air from the Midwest Ohio gas well .'.5 miles southwest of Rasln, Wyo., as the result of a spark caused by friction of the drilling apparatus at the well Sunday Sun-day The dead man is a driller naiu-d naiu-d Kramer. Joe Henr. a tool dresser, and three other unidentified unidenti-fied men are dying from burns. Physicians were sent from Basin because of im possibility of transporting trans-porting the injured men overland from the Ituffnlo oil fields. There Is no communication with the camp by telephone. The flumes from the well can be seen for a hundred miles acrsjSS the country, It is said to be the largest gas well yet found The derrick was destroyed |