STORM AT SYDNEY
LIGHTNING FIRES HOUSE FIREBALL’S EXPLOSION ' (Australian Press Assn.) • (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Reed. Oct. 26, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 26. 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 the fence wrecked. Blanches of trees were thown several hundred yards.
Lightning struck and set fire to a house at Auburn. A woman at Newcastle received a severe electric shock from a clothes’ line, which was struck by lightning. The Meteorologist defined the fireball as a slow moving ball of fire, which finally exploded. It consisted of a globe of incandescent rarefied air and gas, usually about the size of a football. ’ In most cases it travels a few inches above the ground, and quite often passes through houses.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 October 1929, Page 7
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