STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
TELEPHONE USERS RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS. Dunedin. December 10. A strange incident occurred at Tapnnui to-day. An extremely heavy thunderstorm broke over the district about noon, and just after a Hash of lightning, a woman who was in communication by telephone with Edievale was knocked unconscious and did not recover for half an hour. It was then discovered that the woman who was speaking from Edievale had also received a severe shock, having been knocked unconscious tor fully five minutes. The lightning also put all the fuses on the high tension wires out of action.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19261216.2.16
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3576, 16 December 1926, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
96STRUCK BY LIGHTNING Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3576, 16 December 1926, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in