STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Melbourne, February 14 One o£ the grandest displays of lightning ever seen here was witnessed on (Sunday afternoon. It comprised the three varieties of sheet, chain, and forked lightning. The storm cleared Melbourne, but was very severe in the south-west, especially at Geelong, where a sad fatality occurred. A fell monger, named Eichard Holuhan, thirty-three years of age, when driving home in a spring cart, accompanied by his wife and three children, was, when crossing the roadway about 300 yards from his residence in East Geelong, struck on the back of the head by lightning and killed instantly. The back of his collar and a portion of his coat were burnt, and the hair on the
back of his head was singed. A distinct impression of a tree was made upon his chest. His wife got a shock, but was not seriously injured. A young man named Durren, living in the same locality, when forking up some hay, had the fork carried away by the lightning without injury to himself.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1702, 23 February 1888, Page 4
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173STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Temuka Leader, Issue 1702, 23 February 1888, Page 4
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