TWO HAYSTACKS BURNED
.— FARMER’S FORTUNATE ESCAPE. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. GISBORNE, Jan. 3. A vivid flash of forked lightning during a thunderstorm yesterday killed a cow and burned two haystacks on the property of Mr F. Burgess, of the Repongaere soldiers’ settlement. Mr Burgess had a. remarkable escape from death. The storm was of unusual severity for this district, and the destruction of livestock by lightning is probably a unique occurrence for Poverty Bay. Mr Bu rgess Had completed the morning milking and was driving his cows through a gate and across a road to another paddock. Suddenly a flash of lightning rent the air, killing one of the cows in the herd and igniting the two haystacks, which were in line with the stricken beast. Both .stacks, comprising this season’s lucerne, were quickly destroyed. A willow t r-rf, on another part of the property also was shattered hy the lightning.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 5 January 1935, Page 6
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