STRUCK BY LIGHTING.
?• '• ;Th*'e ! lbllbwittg !i is the statement of the man Stone'^Vhd was ; ""With^'Ciiipl Wiieh:the : la'ttel' was killed by lightning : i m ,f Ab'odt 4.20.' o'clock ;• j£ IP. avo, were j standing under shelter' iri a shed at j Ellis Boad, waiting 'for the 'oi^oing j tral : '_.-" : i '"Ciispf%& sjtapdttig^' .ajbjtfut four i fee'K ifiSidethe 1 r c(borwat ,." witH'hia -'face ! t.«Jfe..Bo_tti? J: ,I f^ I close\W , 'hTrb i , if 'i>ut f_ciif^t_e;otliof;\^^ bectfVt _ihßro.iis- 'fla'sjhes bf^i^ntniPg^'and thetia : liilli ; Wh^_ suddeply^T'feft a!sWj sation as if. my knees were .dra^^to- ! ward^TOV^head, rpanie- oyer my ] pyes,)and .i^emeri^)4rjnb mOlje 7»ill _ ] foupdi myseK^try m§ W^ti^Z ! h_nds \ were crampled^wiW'W Singling sensa-] tion, and discplpuredr I . c^Jlei out | €h_ip, 1 six feet- aSWay. -^I» w'^rit ''close td A him, ! Fp^deadj man./ , r^.n^e v r jrti^uji-^h^ i was In tn the s I^uildingß.got up and ran \ and hidliirnqeJl in.^^^tially-1 built; houae, "but sonj&H&die3 an d children i .TPiere? huddjed.. in, r a c^i'iier,"jappafentiy f|ypitie4irhy; o chg ; .,Bp^ic v Gmxp \fsis a(ierwards ; ; rpmoved .3 to- ; the: : .-Hospife.l» but wps then qpite dead." =; ■«» •,«{:-.t;r\ I ';., jprd§y. ; iPews. r seffcbedi ?tftwn . iof 1/: two pi^dea^^m lightning. AtoEovest Siiy^i^^te^ pf >,pt\ Kilpafcrick, seller, s^oie»i»ad eigh*' yeSsrsi> were oypr^pken>hfyuthoijstorinf7jand to^kii-re?-ip:a Bt«iHle.iudßhe7elde_t girl stood sti^ekiW,ideathdberpgoi_stdnta_eonßi jjocupaiitsa ei6aj>ed' -.rcith ia scosching,ibut^aiiiorsor and a dolgi were destrbyed.d eih U '>«-'. «i «; w\ i.ib X*.--liA-ferNorthi Ibrest HiJI -m the same ; distract a.boy na_ied jMcGregovj 'about ; fifteenqyeprs toftage, was; looking out of ; the.iidqovgati the stonnv when die was struck ito' the ground' and^never Spoke again/ yZi~ . .-AZri }'•'-> .r-vsT.-i'ion"! xxv ! c> In another quarter Six telegrSph poleU IweroJshitftered^C: <1 YA.'iAAIUI 11.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 295, 16 November 1883, Page 3
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261STRUCK BY LIGHTING. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 295, 16 November 1883, Page 3
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