Oil Train Explosion at Olean

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 25, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 12.

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Oil Train Explosion at Olean

Fourteen persons were burned to death and nearly thirty seriously burned at Olean, N. Y., on March 9 by the explosion of burning cars of oil. An oil train had been wrecked, and while a crowd was watching the burning oil, several cars exploded, scattering burning oil in every direction.