KILLED IN A THUNDERSTORM
DANGER 1 OF TREE SHELTER IN ; LIGHTNING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ' London, Juno 14. During a thunderstorm two adults and four children were killed while sheltering under trees on Wandsworth Common. Soyeral people had to be sent to the" hospital on account of injuries received in South London. > St. Mark's Church, Lewisham, and the railway station at Bellingham were damaged. ■ SEVEREST STORM IN LIVING MEMORY. (Rec. "June 15, 9.35 p.m.) London, June 15. The thunderstorm was the _ severest ever experienced in London within living memory. A-tropical, downpour, Which lasted for several hours, was followed by a phenomenal fall of hail. A number of children who were sitting under tho troos in Wandsworth Common were struck by lightning threo being killed, while others were severely injured. Elsewhere, lightning struok many persons, houses, and chimney-stacks, while .floods occurred in the southern, and south-eastern suburbs. Traffic was disorganised. ', -
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 16 June 1914, Page 5
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148KILLED IN A THUNDERSTORM Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 16 June 1914, Page 5
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