Oil well fire in Pennsylvania kills nineteen people

In the first serious oil well fire in the United States, a gusher at Oil Creek, Pennsylvania caught fire.  The fire burned for three days and nineteen people were killed. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 439.
    Date Certainty
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    Type
    Crime/Disasters
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