FIREBALL EXPLODES
PASSES THROUGH HOUSE AND STRIKES TREE VIOLENT STORMS IN AUSTRALIA. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY. October 26. (Received October 26, at 10 a.m.) During a violent storm over Sydney and suburbs a fireball passed through a house at Woolwich and burst with a terrific explosion after striking a tree across the road The tree was shattered and a fence was wrecked. Branches of the tree were thrown several hundred yards. Lightning struck and set fire to a house at Auburn, and a woman at Newcastle received a severe electnc shock from a clothes line which' was struck by lightuing. • A meteorologist defined a fireball as a slow-moving ball of fire which finally exploded. It consisted of a globe ot incandescent rarefied air and gas, usually about the size of a football. In most eases it travels a few inches above the ground and quite often passes through houses.
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Evening Star, Issue 20316, 26 October 1929, Page 15
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149FIREBALL EXPLODES Evening Star, Issue 20316, 26 October 1929, Page 15
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