Word: derricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heroes of this and many another well fire were the famed Kinley brothers of Tulsa-Myron, 35, and Floyd, 28-professional wild well tamers. Day after the Gladewater holocaust they flew to the scene of the disaster, began directing men in asbestos suits to clear away the derrick wreckage, kept white hot by the billowing flames. After the preliminary work, during which Brother Myron broke his leg, a sloping track of steel pipe was pushed to the well's mouth. Hobbling around on crutches. Brother Myron helped Brother Floyd load an insulated barrel with 70 quarts of nitroglycerine...
...gusher, leaped and spiraled 300 ft. in the air, Marvin Cole, 18, whose father owns the farm on which the well was drilled, told his version of the disaster. "The men's clothes," he said, "were saturated with oil that had been gushing over the top of the derrick and when the fire started the men ran back and forth through the woods, yelling and clutching at their flaming clothes. I would have given a million dollars if I hadn't heard those awful screams of the men in that fire. You could have heard them for half...
...Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair flew over from Dallas, 110 mi. to the west, to see his costly cauldron. He found the entire countryside shrouded in haze. Workmen were busy clearing away 20 acres of pine forest surrounding the flaming gusher, trying to remove bits of the white-hot derrick and machinery. There was not much that Oilman Sinclair, always popular with his men, could do but assure speedy pensions to the families of the victims...
...crowd, estimated at a million persons, were 20 who fell into the hold of a dismantled barge, had to be hoisted out by derrick...
...well just beyond the southeastern city boundary, known as the C. E. Stout No. i. It blew in last week and in eight minutes, seeming well under control, produced 350 bbl. of oil. Then sand came with the driving liquid, cut through the valves, demolished the surmounting derrick. The well turned into the "wildest ever seen," much more powerful and dangerous than the nearby Mary Sudik, which last spring kept Oklahoma citizens alarmed for ten days (TIME, April 14). C. E. Stout No. 1 cast up daily about 100,000,000 cu. ft. of gas, about...