FLOOD WATERS
— PresS Assn.
Afire At Cincinnati SPARKS IGNITE OIL Officials Phui to Dynamite Building ONLY HOPE OF SAFETY
(By Tale&raph
— Copytieht.)
(Received 25, 2.20 p.m.) CINCINNATI, Jan. 24. The worst disaster in the city's history occurred to-day when gasoline and oil floating on the flood waters in the industrial section of tlie city was ignited by sparks from "broken power lines. ihe flames spread to the warehouse of tfce CrOBley Jtadio Corporation, destroying it. Several factories of the huge Stan* dard Oil plaht are buming aiid the damage is already estimated &t 3,000,000 dollars. Officials are planniflg to use dynamite to destroy factories in the path of the flames in order to bring the fire under control, if neces.isury. All available fireffien and ap,par&ttis are being used, including some from near-by towns. American Legian volunteers and prisoners from the city workhouse are helping to fight the fire. Many families had to be ifioved out Of the path of the floating fire, which has extended over several miles of ter,ritory. Black smoke fiung over the entire city, adding to the terrors of the flood*
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 8, 25 January 1937, Page 7
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