An English Storm.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7906, 23 August 1905, Page 4

An English Storm.

Thunderstorms rtjfjed over many Parts of Great llrita'in on June 28. A thunderbolt crashed through the roof of a house in <utt'sey lane. Warringtrm. scattering the slates in all directions', and passing into the ,sit> tint; room of the jidi'iiniii,,; dwelling, it, weetked the lircplaoe and the wall. At Noithwich a whirlwind swept down on the oertlre of the town with a velocity that carried ev<>i*,\ tliiufr fore it. 'l'wo slaughter-houses <wer<' unroofed, and about a ton of hay, forming portion of a fifteen ton stack near the station, was carried nearly a quarter of a mile. The low-lying portions of KiCnmoivf (Yarks) were flooded, ,h'»i paving stones were washed down the streets. In the Mechanics' Institution, many hooks were dauiageid by water, ami the crops and fruit suffered heavily. It became ncoessary to rescue horsev from stables, and Wail drifted into heaps, from which ihoys tried to make snowballs. While on a pleasure trip in a sailing boat near Walton-on-Naze a man weait suddenly miad, owing, dt iif 7iC lieved, to tho heat. He was taken t< Brentwood Asylmni.

Horses \vere killed by lightning on the Ihike of Bedford's estate, nfaPeterborough, and at Guyfiirn* a house »as cut in two. Hailstones as lar|p! as marbles fell near Kettorimr. Running to shelter from a turnip field at Wultham, near <!rimsby, a nia i named <!Cc>rge Ihinn, was st'.uck dead by lightning. . His brother, o few yards away, was uninjured.