DEATHS BY LIGHTNING
SHED IN PARK HIT
SEVEN PERSONS KILLED, EIGHTEEN INJURED
(British Official Wireless.) (Received August 22, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, August 21. Seven persons were killed and eighteen were injured when a shed in a park at Ilford was struck by lightning during an exceptionally severe thunderstorm over London and suburbs. A boy, on investigating screams coming from the shed, found thirty people heaped on the floor. An unconscious woman was clasping two children. Floods and power failures delayed rail and trolley-bus services.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 45, 22 August 1939, Page 9
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84DEATHS BY LIGHTNING Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 45, 22 August 1939, Page 9
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