100 Year Old Weblog: BOY, MATCH, OIL, FIRE. ~ One of John D.'s Tank Wagons Suffered From the Combination.
BOY, MATCH, OIL, FIRE. ~ One of John D.'s Tank Wagons Suffered From the Combination.
A mischievous boy, a lighted match and a Standard Oil tank wagon combined in a very plausible fire yesterday afternoon.
The tank wagon was standing out in front of a grocery store at Thirty-third and McGee streets when a boy passed, lighted a match and threw it into the bucket box in the rear of the wagon. Then he ran, then the fire started and the wagon went up in smoke. Simple case of cause and effect.