TWO FATALITIES
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
STORMS IN AUSTRALIA
CRICKETERS HIT
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received December 20, 1.15 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
During severe storms on the north coast two persons were killed by lightning. John Brewer, aged 29, a journalist, was playing cricket at Casino when a blinding flash struck him and two of his team-mates down. Brewer was killed outright and the others were stunned. Where Brewer had been standing a hole a foot deep and three feet, long was cut in the ground.
Miss Ivy Nicholas, aged 13, was killed at Munyillumbah in remarkable circumstances while listening to the
wireless.
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Evening Post, Volume cxxiv, Issue 148, 20 December 1937, Page 11
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