A Thunderstorm.
- » (By Telegraph.)
INVERCARGILL, March 1.
A violent thunderstorm was experienced here between midnight end fire this morning. Some of the peals were accompanied by a report like that of an enormous cannon. The lightning was very vivid, and a contractor’s workshop in the centre of the town was wrecked by it. The iron roof has evidently been lifted bodily and dropped back in its place as all the nails are drawn about two inches. Every window was smashed and a portion of the. woodwork in the front shattered, a lead pipe was melted as if by fire and s sheet of iron was blackened by the electric fluid and deposited on the footpath. So far there are no reports of other damage by lightning, but the crops will have suffered considerably from wind and bail.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7081, 1 March 1893, Page 3
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137A Thunderstorm. South Canterbury Times, Issue 7081, 1 March 1893, Page 3
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