HAVOC BY HURRICANE
(Press Assn.-
GREAT DAMAGE CAUSED ON THE TRINIDAD OILFIELDS flooded with oil
— By Telegraph — Copyrlght).
Port of Spain (Trinidad) June 30. Havoc reigned in the great Pal? S'eco oilfields to-day as a result of Tuesday's hurricane, which caused at least eleven deaths. Following reports that thousands were homeless in a score of villages and 300 houses were destroyed in Erin alone, a message from Palo Seco stated that sixty derricks of the Trinidad Petroleum Company were felled and destroyed, the oil flowing over the countryside from about twenty wells and storage tanks. The main delivery line, running eleven miles through the forest to the United British refinery, was broken by falling trees, and its entire contents lost.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 573, 3 July 1933, Page 5
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120HAVOC BY HURRICANE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 573, 3 July 1933, Page 5
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