Threatened With Disaster
Bltfalo, N. Y., Feb. 1.- Recent explosions of and havoc wroughtby naphtha-gas in Bewers in liocbester and Binghamton have caused an inquiry to be made regarding the danger in thia city from similar causes. There is not much to fear from naphtha, but Buffalo is raenaced by a danger almost as great in the petroleum pipe lines. Should a break occur at any point a vast quantity of crude oil would be disctiarged into the sewer system of the city in a very short time, and the result might be a series ot disasters which would cause the Kochester calamity to sink into insignificance. CruJe oil, exposed to the air, will become rec'.uced oiie-fourth in volume by the escape of the light and volatile gasea If 20,000 barrels of crude oil should Dow into a sewer at Kust Buffalo from a broken pipe, and thence make its way into the entire sewer system of the business heart of the city, pouring its gases into cellars and apartments of houses through einks, wash-bowls, and defective sewer connections, it would finally come in contact with the gas-jets, ánd something terrible would be sure to ensue.
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