Gr ybull Oil Well Geyser Shocks Nearby Habitats
The Greybull oil well erupts as a geyser causing alarm among local residents. Officials and engineers inspect the site to assess damage and containment.
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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1909
Page
3
The Greybull oil well erupts as a geyser causing alarm among local residents. Officials and engineers inspect the site to assess damage and containment.
In Greybull Wyoming May 12 Rawlin Padlock age 14, son of N A Paddock, perishes while trying to save his family's home from a brush fire when a tree falls on him. His brother survives with injuries. A nearby oil field near Greybull shows a geyser of oil and a rail line disruption from rising flows.
Casper Mayors W. S. Kimball wins re election after a quiet vote with a single slate. David Kidd and Dr. G T Morgan secure alderman and Park addition seats as caspers asbestos mine growth promises progress in the year ahead.
James H. Bury president of the Northwestern Mill Company reports purchasing a complete milling outfit for the North American Asbestos Company and plans to load it at Elyria Ohio. He will then go to Montreal and visit Canadian mines before returning to Casper in about ten days with asbestos expert Cravens who will aid in fiberizing the rock.
Field work on the Walden extension of the Laramie Hahn's Peak and Pacific railway was resumed today. A. J. Eston and surveyors moved from Albany, the current terminus, to complete the survey for the line to Alden, Colorado, about 110 miles from Laramie. The road operates to Bang, and aims to reach Herron to tap coal beds owned by the Northern Colorado Coal Company.
In Casper Wyoming on May 13 heavy rain Monday night gave way to warm spring conditions. Farmers optimistic about crops as dry farming groups praise the season and stockmen anticipate better feed. Union Pacific resumes rolling milly operations at Laraamio Larante, Wyoming, after a long shutdown since December 190%.
May 12 in Grooley Colorado Senator D B Carpenter and A L Mumipor with local residents announce a $20,000 effort to build a reservoir along Crow Creek near the new rail branch line in Gane.
Alphonse Steele of Mexia, sole survivor of the Texas army that defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto, received a gold medal and a Hall of Fame portrait from the Texas Legislature. Steele, 94, shared his memories of the battle, the muster roll, and the march from Hardin County to San Antonio, recounting the bridge destruction ordered by General Houston to force a fight to the death.
A suffragette flotilla aboard a steam launch labeled Dreadnought sailed to the Thames near Parliament. From the boat they released bursts of handbills while singing the Marseillaise, drawing attention on the terraces as newspapers and posters showered down on MPs.
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