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Show FIERCE BLAZE i mm TANKS OF OIL Two Million Barrels Endangered En-dangered Bv Fire Lightning Light-ning Causes 1 HOl'SToX. Tex.. Nov. 13. The j most disastrous fir- in the 21 years'! history of the Gulf coast oil fields , now is rasinp in the fluiribk! sector,1 17 inlics northeast of Houston. Three fjuurtr-rs of a million harrtla of oil are burning and with a stiff wind in the north fully 2.000.000 barrels of oil are endangered. $ Sunday's stern) is responsible. At 4.30 o'clock during a terrific downpour down-pour of rain. Ilgutrilnf; struck tank No. 21 Of the Quit 1'ipe lano company, com-pany, l ransportaiion subsidiary of the i.iu!f Oil corporation. A column Of flames Shot skyward 200 feet, fol-' lowed by a dense cloud of Mark moke and a report that shock houses and rattled window panes all ; ov.-r the Humble townsite. VXOTHBR CANKfi .;l RNS. A1 2:46 a m Monday, tank No. 22. j adjoining tank No. 21. on the nortli I caught fir and is burnlnj; riercoljo i The flames, fannou by me wind now threatens No. I1 rml X. and even the blp pump station Itself. If the wind holds nothing can eavo the KUlf tank farm with the farther probability that the Sun company tanl.s on the east sld of the road from the gulf tanks I will lnnlt y,o than n mlllton bar-rola bar-rola of oil i e l" storage in thf Sun ompany tanks PANKS UiL PULL. Tank No. 21 first fired, has a ca-' ca-' parity of r.S i.iiOO barrels and had over I SOO.OOt) barrels of oil stored therein iv!icn lnlted. Tank No. 22 has a j fctorace rapacity of 275.000 barrels j.'ind was practically full of oil. Tanks I No 11 find 8 are smaller, about 150.- Ono barrels capacity and are nearly I Cull of oil. Tank No. 21 Is the largest earthen oil storage tank In Tx,is. All the ,':nk in the gulf lank farm at Humble !ln Iho path of the flames are oarthei I reservoirs The value of the 750.000 barrels of ell now burning IS estimated at Jl Ooo. 000 or more One man wa. injured. |