A SHOCKING DEATH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 253, 8 April 1880, Page 2

A SHOCKING DEATH.

Tho Sandhurst corresponded of the | Argus supplies the following particulars i of a sad death by lightning, \foph -.00-j f curred near Kangaroo Flat Railway, : station at the beginning of A man named Martin Molony,*' plate-- , layer on the line, was engaged v*h three others at the place mentioned. |pU .the .' time stated the men were i The deceased and a msn named Isaacs Griffiths were sitting on a trdlly that : had been removed from the rials, the wheels having teen placod at fach end. . A thunderstorm came on, two • men decided to go under a cnvttlet, but -j just afterwards a flash of lighting carno < s striking Molony and killing hir mstan- ; taneously. Griffiths was also -affected : by the stroke, and was rented msensible for a few niinuiss. He ; sustained no serious injury, pit bis • escape was almost miraculous. rgfidony's f clothes were torn to shreds. His hat f could not be found, and the hyls of a ? heavy pair of Blucher boots f hich ha f wore were dragged completely-|ff. The ballast was also torn up. Thf injuries ;;., werc|desciibed as shockmg/Jflie out- *-) side skin on being pressed fingers H pealed off, the face was discolored," blood N wos issuing from both ears anck nostrils^ the heir was singcdWFthe head, the left leg was broken, l|»on«£J| being into fragnaSpT heels were lacejafcccl as if byfi: knife,jMjh and all the bones m their, patte wrnrm ground up. Two ether men; jjjho were' ; °j| eating their dinner in the culvert/a yards off,felt the. shock but "were hot || injured. The ganger, Thorns«harpe, jj who had charge of the men&atid *«* j| engaged in diverting the cbjlrse of-\a3g water channel, was knockedpnto thai® water, but recovered almost immediately/ft Not mere than a minute the shock Mol<-,ny_ J& foundTO