HURRICANE HAVOC
THOUSANDS HOMELESS TRINIDAD DISASTER. press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Saturday, 10.25 a.m.) PORT OF SPAIN, Friday. Havoc reigned in tlie great Palo Seco oilfields to-day as the result of Tuesday’s hurricane which caused at least eleven deaths. Following upon reports that thousands were homeless in a score of villages, and three hundred houses destroyed in Erin alone, a message from Palo Seco stated that sixty derricks of the Trinidad Petroleum Company were' felled and destroyed, oil flowing over countryside from about twenty Amelia and storage tanks. m>The main delivery line running eleven miles through a forest to the United British Refinery was broken by falling trees ard the entire contents lost.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 July 1933, Page 5
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