STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 17, 20 January 1905, Page 2

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

MELBOURNE, January 12. During a thunderstorm at Ensay, near Omeo, to-day, a young man named Cook and a boy named William Boucher were struck by lightning and killed. Yesterday evening Mr Wm. Stonestreet, an old man residing between Blayney and Guj-ong, sustained serious injuries by a lightning shock. With a couple of other men, he was building haystacks, and was standing at the side of a completed stack when the top of it was struck by lightning. Fortunately the lightning ran down the opposite side of the stack, but Mr Stonestreet nevertheless received a severe shock, and he was unconscious for half an hour, and is now under medical treatment, and suffering acute pain- A man named Leary, several yards away, also received a shock, but not of so serious a nature as that sustained b> Stonestreet. A thunderstorm broke over the town of Tumberumba the same evening, when three horses, which were grazing in the racecourse paddock, were knocked down by a lightning shock, one being killed outright.