DEATH BY LIGHTNING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15332, 15 June 1910, Page 7

DEATH BY LIGHTNING.

FIFTY PERSONS KILLED IN GERMANY. SENSATIONAL INCIDENT IN A PARK. A HUNDRED PEOPLE INJURED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 13. A Berlin message says that during a thunderstorm six persons were killed, seventeen injured seriously and a hundred slightly by lightning in Jungfernhelde Park, Berlin, while they were sheltering under the trees. (Received Juno 14. 9.15 p.m.) BERLIN, Juno 14. Lightning in Germany has killed fifty persons during the last twentyone days. The Jungfernhelde Park was crowded with pleasure-seekers when the storm broke. A thousand took refuge under the trees in the Johannis Cemetery, which is surrounded by iron-bound palings. A fearful flash of lightning struck a house, passed into the earth, and was carried underground to the palings, where it ran along the iron through the crowd. All were momentarily blinded and stunned. A hundred lay on the ground writhing and screaming. Most of the injuries were severe burns.