GLASGOW STORM
DESTRUCTIVE LIGHTNING Houses Unroofed and Fired CONSIDERABLE FLOODING (By Telegraph—Brers Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 25, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, June 24. Twenty houses were struck by lightning during a violent earlymorning storm at Glasgow. Roofs were torn off and houses set on ftre. Stormwater sometimes .four feet deep drove residents from their homes. A burst water main and failure of the electric light increased the confusion. Fifteen residents of a tenement had barely reached the street when the roof fell in, penetrating three floors.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 162, 25 June 1935, Page 7
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83GLASGOW STORM Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 162, 25 June 1935, Page 7
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