FREAKS OF A THUNDERBOLT.
IXJI'3EB SKVEIUL PEOPLE AND SETS FIRE TO ECSIiES. A thunderbolt foil at Birkenhead and msdo a hole in the ground lv>ut eighteen inches in diameter and two leet in dept h. The ball of fi;-e ova L-ho Bidston Observatory anl struck a mound of earth, whence it rebounded into a ndd ;u;d set lire to some gorse there. A van-mar. whe was ntar at the lime was knocked down, and a florist working in his garden waenvtlopcd in a ring of flame uid whirled several yards, while* tho spade with which he was working was hurled ever the hedge.
A cow grazing in a field was brought to the ground by the shock, aftd several workmen in the vicinity, who had trowels in their hands, were considerably alarmed at being knocked ot! the ladders en which they were 'working at the time, l'eopb who were several hundred yards away from the spot where the bolt fe' 1 rccriv d violent shocks and were iufl'ering irem nervous prostration.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 18 June 1907, Page 4
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171FREAKS OF A THUNDERBOLT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 18 June 1907, Page 4
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