THE THUNDERSTORM.
MELAjNCHOIVY DgATH".
WOMAN^STRUCK BT" ; LIG-HT-
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On yesterday afternoon, a death.'occurred tit Pun inure, under peculiar -and very painful circumstances. A young married woman, Mrs. Connor, aged seventeen, had apparently been engaged in lighting the fire, in preparation of dinner for her husband, whom she was expecting at the time, when the thunderstorm burst over the district. Nothing can be known of what actually occurred, but when found, the bricks of the chimney had all been levelled, falling, however, to the outside of the house, while, beside the fireplace, inside, and untouched by the fallen chimney lay the body of the poor Woman quite dead and black. Deceased had with her one child, a little boy, who escaped, and she was on the eve of becoming a second time a mother. The melancholy occurence has produced a very painful fealing in the district. The residence of the deceased is about a mile and a half on this side of the church, and in this particular district the storm seems to have been unusually severe, though we have not heard of any fur.}_3i" casualty.
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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 284, 7 December 1870, Page 2
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185THE THUNDERSTORM. Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 284, 7 December 1870, Page 2
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