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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Explosions and fire at Sinclair Oil Company refinery in Wellsville, N.Y., on July 18: three men killed and 75 injured in initial blast last night, followed by new explosion today igniting storage tanks with 2,500 and 50,000 barrels of oil; three spectators died in tank incident across Genesee River.
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WELLSVILLE, N. Y., July 18 (P) - A huge, new explosion early today, rocked the Sinclair Oil Company fifteen million dollar refinery, where three men were killed and seventy-five injured last night.
The fire sweeping through the plant spread anew in two directions to a storage tank containing twenty-five hundred barrels of oil. The Naptha exploded shortly before daybreak with a deafening roar a few minutes later.
Plant officials reported that the fifty thousand barrels' tank at the opposite side of the refinery property was on fire, but none were injured. In the explosion of the twenty-five hundred barrel tank, although three spectators died when a similar tank skyrocketed across the Genesse River last night.
About one hundred firemen were sent to the vicinity of the burning fifty thousand barrel tank this, company officials said stands next to a whole line of tanks filled with highly inflamable naptha.
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Wellsville, N. Y.
Event Date
July 18
Outcome
three men killed and seventy-five injured last night; three spectators died when a tank skyrocketed across the genesse river last night; no additional injuries from fifty thousand barrel tank fire.
Event Details
A huge new explosion early today rocked the Sinclair Oil Company fifteen million dollar refinery, following last night's incident where three men were killed and seventy-five injured. The fire spread to a storage tank containing twenty-five hundred barrels of oil, which exploded shortly before daybreak. A fifty thousand barrels tank at the opposite side was on fire, with about one hundred firemen sent to the vicinity next to a line of highly inflamable naptha tanks.