TERRIFIC THUNDER STORM
WIDESPREAD DAMAGE
SEVERAL CASUALTIES,
!_ United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. J
(Received this day at 10 15 a.m.) LONDON, August 5.
Terriffic thunderstorms, causing widespread damage to Britain, France and Belgium raged all the afternoon in London accompanied by torrential rain and thuntLh'clapfi. Train tun hob; are flooded and all traffic from Kingsley Gross Btat* ion .is held up and tram track* in various suburbs are flooded.
•Several people were struck by i.ghtliing. A fisherman using a metal rod was struck and rent in twain. Lightning set fire to a tram car in .Southampton and a firebell crashed on a hotel roof. A tent in which ten North African soldiers were sheltering at Laoii, northern France, was struck by lightning and eight were killed. Four farm labourers in the Blois district were killed. Farm buildings were set on fire. Cattle were killed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1931, Page 5
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