HOUSE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
WOMAN STUNNED BY FLASH
(press association telegbam.)
PALMERSTON N., December 20. During a thunderstorm at Woodville this morning lightning struck the home of Mrs E. M. Christiansen, who was preparing the breakfast. She was stunned by the flash and collapsed over a table, where she was found by her son, who rushed from the cowshed when the flash struck with an ear-splitting noise. •*„-„„ Six panes of glass in two kitchen windows were broken, spouting was torn from the roof, and a verandah post split at the top.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22590, 21 December 1938, Page 10
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