LIGHTNING DEATHS
THIRTY PERSONS TRAPPED IN SHED SEVEN KILLED AND EIGHTEEN INJURED. SEVERE STORM OVER LONDON SUBURBS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON. August 21. Seven persons were killed and 18 injured when a shed at Ilford was struck by lightning during a severe thunderstorm over the London suburbs. A boy investigated on hearing screams from the shed, found 30 people heaped on the floor unconscious, a woman clasping two children. Floods and power failures delayed rail and trolley-bus services.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1939, Page 6
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84LIGHTNING DEATHS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1939, Page 6
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