FATAL LIGHTNING STORM IN SOUTHLAND.-FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3848, 16 November 1883, Page 3

FATAL LIGHTNING STORM IN SOUTHLAND.-FURTHER PARTICULARS.

j __U UIJiUM. 2 Invercaeoill, This day. _. The f olio .vitig is tho statement of the man . Stono, avlio Avas Avith Crisp when the latter Avas killed by lightning:—About 4.20 p.m. avc Avere standing in the shelter shed at Ellis road, Avaiting for the outgoing train. Crisp Avas standing about four feet inside j the doorway, Avith his face to the south. I r was close to him, but facing the other Avay.

1 There had been numerous flashes of lightning, and then a lull, Avhen suddenly I felt a sensation as if my knees were draAvn towards my head. A cloud came over my eyes, and I remember no more till I found f myself trying to rise. My hands Avero t cramped with a tingling sensation, and dis--0 colored. I called out to Crisp, who avus s lying on his back about six feet a.v.ay. I 1 wont close to him, and in a few seconds ho 3 said, " Stone, I'm a dead man." Another man aa-Jio was iv the buildings got up and ran and hid himself in a partially built house, but some ladies and children were huddled in a corner apparently stupificd by tlic i- shock. Crisp avus afterwards removed to - tho hospital, but ho avus then quite dead. 1 Yesterday news reached town of t.vo - other deaths from lightning. At Forest Hill two daughters of Air Kilputriek, a ■i settler, aged 10 and 8 .years, avoi-o overtaken t by the storm, and took refuge in a stable where some other men had sought protcc- , tion. The eldest girl stood in tho doorway, Avhen the flash came and struck her, death being instantaneous. The other occupants escaped with a scorching, but a horso ancl dogAvere destroyed. At North Forest Hill, in the.same district", a boy named AlcGregor, aged about 15 years, was looking out of the door at tho , storm, when he avus struck to the ground ' and never spoke again. In another quarter six telegraph poles Avoro scattered.