COUNTRYSIDE FLOODED WITH OIL.
TRINIDAD HURRICANE OVERTHROWS DERRICKS. TRAIL OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) PORT' OF SPAIN (Trinidad), June 30. Havoc reigned in the great Palo Saco' 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 that 300 houses had been destroyed in Erin alone, a message from Palo Seco stated that (30 derricks of the Trinidad Petroleum Company were felled and destroyed.
•Oil is flowing over the countryside from about twenty wells and storage taniks.
■The main delivery line, running 11 miles through the forest, to the United British refinery, was broken by falling trees, and the entire contents were lost. *
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 July 1933, Page 5
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