OIL TANKS ON FIRE.
HEAVY DAMAGE DONE,
; : (BY cable—press association copybioht.) (AUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE - ASSOCIATIOK.) MELBOURNE, Juno 14. Two oil tanks, each of 17,000 gallons, at. the Commonwealth Oil Refinery Works at Altona, have been greatly damaged and their contents destroyed by fire. Gaa from the burning oil ex« ploded and blew the roofs off both the tanks. The pump houses nearby were ignited and the engines and pumps were destroyed. No estimate of the damage has yet been made.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18100, 16 June 1924, Page 9
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