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STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

HOUSE PARTLY WRECKED. JOHNSONVILLE, August 5. The double chimney of a house occupied by Mr and Mrs W. Skinner, at Johnsonyille, was struck by lightning this morning and smashed off level with the roof. So violent was the impact of the thunderbolt that the fragments of the stack were scattered yard^away on an adjacent paddock. The occupants were awakened by a crash of hail on the roof, and then came a flash that brilliantly lighted the bedroom, quickly followed by a deaiening detonation and clatter of falling material. Mr Skinner and his wife thought that their house was tumbling in ruins about them, and they scon discovered that the lightning had been a very busy .visitor. The mantelpiece was lying in fragments on the floor, and the grate was reduced to pieces. A 400-day clock was among tie victims of the assault, but the untimely ending of its life (for the present) had recorded the exact minute of the onset as 1-34 a.nx.

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Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 9

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STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 9

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 9

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