MAN STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING
~,—# ' . SEVERE STORMS IN NEW SOUTH WALES (Received February 21, 11.46 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 21.
A vivid flash of lightning during an intense electrical storm over the Newcastle district . this afternoon struck a relief worker dead and injured two others, one seriously. The victims were:-r-Messrs Jack Hogan (dead), J. S. Duffrey (severe shock), and R. Vale (severe shock). Mr Duffrey was admitted to hospital for urgent treatment. The men were standing near a picket fence when the lightning struck right among them, During a. sudden storm in Sydney this afternoon lightning damaged a building in Waterloo suburb.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21714, 22 February 1936, Page 15
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