ELECTRICAL STORM AT NEW PLAYYMOUTH.
FACTORY AND. HOUSE SET AFIRE BY FIjASjH WINDOW CRACKED. NEW PLYMOUTH, Last Night. An electrical storm of exceptional severity New Plymouth this. and evening, accompaniedby heavy haiishowers, .Lightning struck the factory of Messrs Jones and Sandford and a private house-next door and aejfe.-' fire Ip both. The Brigade was called pi|t, but thef names•*were extinguished with chemicals be* fore it arrived. The lightning entered the factory hy flaming along an iron conduit pipe carrying power lines and ignited a ppt of Trench polish,,, which spread the flames among some straw packing. Twelve motors, driving individual machines, blazed like bans of nre and one workman was temporarily blinded. The same - flash struck the steel guy ropes of the wireless at the house next door, struck a corner of the house, tearing off a scorching the wall inside and igniting the rafters. About 100 telephones in various parts of the town were put out of commission and numerous fuses wpipß blown. ■ Another strange prank by the lightning was to crack a pane in. a window in the centre of the town. The wind was sufficiently Strong to blow in several windows at the Fitzroy Methodist school,, but in this, heavy hailstones may have assisted.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 September 1928, Page 6
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