KILLED BY LIGHTNING
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIVES LARGE PARTY STRUCK. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright CAPE TOWN, November 17. An East Loudon message states that a single flash of lightning killed 66 natives, who were participating in beer drinking in a large hut at Clarkebuy. Nine were seriously injured and the majority of them are not expected to recover. -Fifty-six were killed outright, their bodies being terribly burned. The hut was soon a blazing inferno. Of 19 others who managed to get out, ten died. All were crowded in the hut when a storm burst over the place.
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Evening Star, Issue 21881, 19 November 1934, Page 9
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