TERRIBLE PETROLEUM FIRE.
■■ ACTION OF LIGHTNING. , DAMAGES ESTIMATED AT £100,000. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.— Hamburg, June 1. Lightning set fire to the petroleum stores in the city. Five thousand five hundred tons of oil in the tanks were burned, besides 36,000 barrels. The damage is estimated at £100,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9836, 3 June 1895, Page 5
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47TERRIBLE PETROLEUM FIRE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9836, 3 June 1895, Page 5
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