GIRL FOUND DEAD
VICTIM OF LIGHTNING
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 25
An eight-year-old. child, Dorothy Mac Pousford, was found dead in a paddock at Bromley this afternoon. It is thought she was struck by lightning during one of the most violent electrical storms for some years which swept Christchurch and a number of country districts.
Hailstones were at least three-quar-ters of an inch in diameter daring the most severe period. Glasshouses, apple orchards, and tomato crops were damaged extensively. Before and during the hailstorm there were vivid flashes of lightning with great thunderclaps. An electric power line at Riccarton was struck by the lightning and installations in the power station damaged. All services connected with the overhead reticulation—about half the total number in the area—were cut out temporarily and many . other connections in the borough were also broken.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1942, Page 9
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