LIGHTNING & DELUGE
INTENSE ELECTRICAL STORM WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION IN ENGLAND MANY ANIMALS KILLED IN FIELDS. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, August 4. A thunderstorm of exceptional intensity, moving slowly over Southern England, from west to east, left a trail of destruction due to lightning and torrential rain. Train services were interrupted and many roads were impassable on account of floods. Many houses were struck by lightning and a large number of animals were killed in the fields. DAMAGE AT HAVRE. LIGHTNING KILLS 26 PERSONS IN POLAND. (Rccd This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 4. Severe storms were experienced also on the Continent. A man and two children were drowned by a tidal wave at Havre, where damage to buildings is estimated at £200,000. Lightning killed 26 persons in Poland, mostly in the region of Vilna.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1938, Page 5
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