Violent Thunderstorm in Melbourne.
A WOMAN KILLED FBOM FRIGHT. (Per Press Association.) Melboubne, Jan. 13. During the thunderstorm and while a meeting of the Council was proceeding, a fearful clap of thunder and lightning struck the Trades Hall, wrecked the parapet, smashed a large hole in tiie roof, splintered rafters into matchwood, and put out the electric light. The force of the shock was so great tiiat it burst open two strong iron doors in the passage and wrenched ont the rivets. The meeting sat in silence and darkness till the caretaker came to the rescue. About tbe same time a woman was found dead in the street. It is supposed sbe succumbed to tbe fright and shock. The average rain fall throughout the Colony for 1895 was 17*06 inches, the lowest since 1865. The average for the last thirty -nine years was 25*87 inches. The evaporation last year was also much above the average.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 164, 14 January 1896, Page 2
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