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Page 2 • The Battalion • Monday, July 15, 1996
Gas well explodes, kills two worker
DIME'BOX (AP) — Contain
ment specialists will try today to
penetrate the wall of blistering
heat that has so far hindered ef
forts to extinguish a raging fire
from a natural gas well explosion
that killed two men.
The rig, owned by WCS Oil &
Gas Inc. of Dallas, erupted in a
series of three explosions Satur
day night, creating a ball of fire
nearly 40 feet in the air. Onlook
ers said the blaze illuminated
the sky from 20 miles a way.
Heat in excess of 1,000 de
grees Fahrenheit permitted the
workers to recover only one of
the two bodies Sunday.
That body was being sent to
the Travis County Medical Ex
aminer’s Office for identification
based on dental records. Work
ers had yet to locate the body of
the second victim, but hoped to
do so today, Lee County Deputy
Sheriff Adam Gonzales said.
“They’re going to ... try to cool
the fire down as much as they can
to do some searching,” he
said.Members of Joe Bowden’s
Wild Well Control Inc., of
Spring, Texas, said efforts may
take from two to 10 days to ex
tinguish the fire.
Workers used ear plugs to
dampen the sound of the fire,
which rivaled that of a jet engine
or freight train.
“It’ll probably take a week to
get this fire out,” said Pat Camp
bell, vice president of Joe Bow
den’s. “The gas doesn’t pose
much of a threat because every
thing is burning. You almost
have complete combustion.
Everything else is dissipating
into the air. It’s quite safe.”
Danny Anderson, the on-site
manager for WCS, said the
cause of the blast was still unde
termined Sunday.
“We are trying to find out ex
actly what happened ourselves,”
he said. “We probably won’t have
any answers until we get in
there and start moving some of
the wreckage.”
Three firefighters suffered
minor burns in an unsuccessful
attempt to get close enough to
pull out one of the bodies.
“The body we saw was burned
beyond recognition,” said
Spencer Schneider of the 26-
member volunteer fire depart
ment from nearby Giddings.
“From the looks of the man
gled wreckage, he never knew
what hit him,” said Schneider,
adding that the other body had
n’t been spotted.
Firefighters kept a steady
flow of water on two 8,000-gal
lon tanks of diesel fuel near
the blaze.
“If we don’t keep those tanks
cool, we could have another ex
plosion,” Schneider said.
The initial blast at roughly
7:15 p.m. Saturday was followed
by two more explosions, witness
es said. Rig workers had under
gone a shift change at 7 p.m.,
and the two victims were out on
the platform of the structure at
the time of the first explosion,
witnesses said.
The body firefighters were
Mor
July 15
AssocialfdK
able to locate was thrown rough
ly 35 feet by the blast. A skele
ton crew of other workers at the
rig was able to escape without
injury, Gonzales said.
“We will talk to the employees
who survived and conduct a
thorough investigation as soon
as we can recover the bodies and
get the fire under control,” Gon
zales said.
The specialists from Joe Bow
den’s well company arrived at
the blowout about 2 a.m. Sun
day, digging a trench around the
rig to form a water-filled ms
aimed at keeping the fire frt
spreading.
Later, they used cranes*
long hooks and bulldozers to de
mangled metal from the area.
They brought in 12 water tail
the size of tractor trailer rigs.
The fire is in southeast ij
County, just west of Lai
Somerville, just off FM IK
and eight miles southeast
Dime Box.
The well is 66 miles southu
of Austin.
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Perot’s run poses 'mortal threat’ to Dole
A strong Reform Party ticket could hurt the OOP's chances in Novembe
WASHINGTON (AP) — An
other Ross Perot run for the
presidency poses a “mortal
threat” to Republican hopeful
Bob Dole’s chances of winning
in November, GOP conservative
Pat Buchanan said Sunday.
“If you have a very strong
Reform Party,” said Buchanan,
who came in second to Dole in
the Republican presidential pri
maries, “you’ve got a very seri
ous problem in terms of win
ning the presidency.”
Perot, who took nearly one-
fifth of the vote, running as an
independent, in the 1992 elec
tion, last week announced that
he was willing to run again,
this time at the head of the
ticket of his Reform Party.
His announcement just a day
after Richard Lamm, the former
Democratic governor of Colorado,
said he
‘Face
was
seeking the
Reform Party
nomination.
Buchanan
expressed
concern that
the Reform
Party would
siphon off the
“conservative
populist” vote
that backed
him in the
primaries
PEROT
“The Perot candidacy, as op
posed to Governor Lamm, is a
mortal threat to the Republican
Party in 1996 because Ross
Perot can win the Buchanan
voters,” he said on CBS’
the Nation.”
Lamm, appearing earlier on
the same program, said he was
undeterred by Perot’s entry
into the race and said he would
make a better third-party
choice because Perot “is no
longer the fresh and new face.”
Perot, he said “has built a party
that is bigger than himself.”
Lamm made clear that he is
leaving the Democratic Party to
support his new party, but empha
sized that he would not take sec
ond place in a ticket under Perot.
Lamm also said he was in
terested in debating Perot, al
though he added that he and
Perot agree on most issues and
“I don’t know that there is that
much to debate about.”
Most analysts agreed that
1992 Perot’s presence hn:
President Bush more thanE
Clinton, and Senate Democrat
leader Tom Daschle of Soul
Dakota on Sunday welcoim
another Perot run.
“I think that Ross Perot briri
a certain dimension to polite
that is helpful, and I don’tsa
anything wrong with it at all
We’d be glad to have himiii
volved,” Daschle said on NBC's
“Meet the Press.”
Senate Majority Leader Trent
Lott, R-Miss., also on NBC,
he didn’t think Perot would get as
much support as he did in
and “I think it may take a
bit more from both sides thank
did last time, but I really
know.”
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