KILLED BY BALL OF FIRE
At an inquest hold at Blind Prcsloign on a farm waggoner named Brick, killed during a thunderstorm, witnesses stated that they saw a ball of fire which burst with an explosion like a bomb, and the man and his horse foil dead instantly. The Coroner said that experts agreed that lightning sometimes took the form of a bal lot fire, which burst like a bomb. A verdict of death through a discharge of electricity of high voltage through the body was returned.
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Evening Star, Issue 18717, 20 August 1924, Page 10
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87KILLED BY BALL OF FIRE Evening Star, Issue 18717, 20 August 1924, Page 10
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