TERRIFIC THUNDERSTORM.
ONE MAN KILLED. TWO I'THKRS INK/RED. lIA V STACK SF.T AFIRF.. ( HRISTCIU'RI H. Friday. A tcrr'.ii'- thunderstorm -wept over i .!-■ this afternoon, and a man named I .lad; .lli-on was .m.-k by lightning and killed. He w«« employe! on Mr. 11. Pillock's farm, and when -truck he I «-.!- -tamling "ii a stack with a fork in his hand. Atli-on was a returned -..ldier. and a . «in_le m.i n. Tlie st,,:-m came from lhe -uuth-we-t and there were ,leaf»-nin_ peals of thunder. Rain .Mine down in sheets, and : there were hail shower-, but within half-an-hour trie sun wa- -liming brightly. lie-idem, btate that the ground shook at time- us the thunder crashed. 1 i if the two men who were working l with Allison on the -tack, one was renI dered uncon. - ion- for a time and the oilier i. now stiff and -ore "tt the left j side. At the iti'pie.t medical evidence was 'given that Allison's death was install taneou*. ! The lightning -et the stack on fire, i but the tire was soon extinguished.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 35, 10 February 1923, Page 14
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177TERRIFIC THUNDERSTORM. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 35, 10 February 1923, Page 14
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