Particulars of the Lightning. Accident.
. c Ns^ Plymouth, Septi} 5.^ ' = A b©aTy _^mdji'stoi?pi ll ]with .^yM lightning, broke!«ver the "Waihngoua settleiueht^^lib'oitd; , seven ' inilds 'froitf. ifNew Plymouth, r between' 7 and 8 o'clock' cft_ '''Satmrday morning: ;The" lightning went # .down the kitchein. dhimney ' 'Hi^ "thie 1 ;, _ipujW.;.of ' ; a" sefueir naV^,Jo^'Henw(^, and st^ck two of his cfiiidreri— a boy named .George between five and six years of age, and? a' 7 hged about nine'. TU'Tho lightning Came among the. family who where in the back, kitchen, and split a piece of 4x2 scantlings into match' 'wood." -Cm the girl's left ! arm' bein^eh tho elbow 1 and 1 shdtiide* i , t f the" lightning had ! photographed 1 a'" tern-' leaf better, *than it . cqul^, • haye. ;b^6en pdintejd on, the arta. , A!ppth,er 'curious thing about ft was that, the 'sleeves of the girl's fr»*ik had notibeen^at, all intged, bri&jtobeddnanyway.ojThe boy hais4become -sensible, 'but') cannot^ speakr, but by 4he> way"m a he wbrkod his handls ! bn his. Btomach he iiiade'tH^^in^eVlioiise infer "that he ! M^rvrrfi •:«' fy» r~.----^r '.il,! - J _A*±.''.>2£' wp^suffgruig g^eat pain, m,., that- .paajt? o^ the body.* •- , -"— -- A>?«<fZZ<
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 33, 6 September 1887, Page 3
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184Particulars of the Lightning. Accident. Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 33, 6 September 1887, Page 3
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