GAS STRUCK 100 YEARS AGO TODAY: Exceeded expectations

Viking Gas Painting

    Exactly 100 years ago today on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1914 Viking residents awoke to the news that a flow of gas which “exceeds the expectation of the experts who located the well” had been found.

    The headline in the Viking News two days later screamed “Gas Struck” and told of an immense flow of gas which