VIOLENT STORM
LIGHNTING STRIKES TWO MEN FATALLY.
(Official Wireless).
RUGBY, November 3,
Southern England and a large part of the Midlands were swept yesterday morning by a violent thunderstorm. It lasted only about half an hour, but during its brief passage 'several people were struck by lightning, two men being killed. Torrential rain fell, buildings and motor-cars were blown over, and shop windows were smashed.
The storm was most seriously felt in the Channel, where a seventy-mile an hour gale raged during the early part of the day. Two of the mail-boats on the Folkcstone-Boulogne run were slightly damaged, and four passengers were injured. Other shipping had severe buffetings, and, but for gallant work by motor lifeboats, lives would have been lost on small vessels which were in difficulties.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1930, Page 5
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