STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
LOG TORN FROM GROUND.
VALUABLE COW KILLED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) STRATFORD, this day. Struck by lightning that apparently killed it intantly, a valuable cow was found at Hillsborough yesterday with its nose stuck in the ground where it had fallen. It was tho victim of a severe electric storm on Wednesday, and was the property of Mr. E. Locke.
The paddock in which the animal had been grazing was once the bed of a swamp. There are many logs protruding from the ground in the vicinity, and one of these was torn completely out of a cavity in which it had been embedded. Nearby patches of turf were lifted and the soil was scattered.
The lightning seems to have run along a small drain in the paddock-, for on one bank there are now several fairly large holes, from which the earth has
been thrown on to the grass,
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 223, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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152STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 223, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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