TERRIFIC THUNDERSTORMS
IN BRITAIN AND ON THE CONTINENT SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED BY LIGHTNING Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 5. (Received August 6, at 12.10 p.m.) Terrific thunderstorms, causing widespread damage in Britain, France, and Belgium, raged all the afternoon. In London there was torrential rain, accompanied by thunderclaps. The train tunnels were flooded, and all traffic from Kingsley Cross station was held up, and the tram tracks in the various suburbs were flooded. Several people were struck by lightning. A fisherman using a metal rod was struck and rent in twain. Lightning set fire to a tramcar in Southampton. A fireball crashed on an hotel roof. A tent in which ten North African soldiex-s were sheltering at Loan, in Northern Franco, was struck by lightning and eight wore killed. Four farm labourers in the Blois district were killed, and the farm buildings wore set on fir© and cattle were killed.
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Evening Star, Issue 20864, 6 August 1931, Page 8
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