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Cross Plains, TX Oil Well and Rig Fire, Mar 1923

Posted December 7th, 2008 by June

Rig Near Cross Plains Is Destroyed By Fire.

Special to The News.
Cross Plains, Texas, March 19.-Fire originating from a stove in the engine house Sunday morning destroyed the rig and left the tools in ruins at the Wright No. 1 well of F. W. Stone & Co., eight miles south of here. The well has made several flows and the flames leaped instantly over the oil-saturated belt house to the rig, which was enveloped in flames in less that two minutes after the fire was discovered.

The loss is estimated at $10,000, with no insurance.

Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 20 Mar 1923
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