AN ALARMING EXPERIENCE.
A House Struck ipyAtg-lUninff. Invekcakgill, August 27. Daring the thunderstorm at Riverton on Wednesday night the house or 0. L. Rickards was struck by lightning which passed through the bedroom and destroyed a chimney. The fluid then took another direction and passed along the spouMne of the house down the water tr.nk a> d then along three chains of barbed wi e fence, the posts of which were shattered to pieces. Rickards, who was in the act of hanging up a side of bacon to the roof, had a narrow escape, the lightning smashing a lamp within 2 feet of him, and several houses In the neighborhood had windows broken and pictures thrown from the walls. .
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1327, 28 August 1886, Page 3
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119AN ALARMING EXPERIENCE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1327, 28 August 1886, Page 3
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