TERRIFIC STORM
EXPERIENCED IN HOMELAND. TORRENTIAL RAIN IN LONDON. PEOPLE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 6, 12.10 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 5. A terrific thunderstorm causing widespread damage in Britain, France and Belgium raged all this afternoon. In London, torrential rain was accompanied by thunderclaps. All the traffic from the King’s Cross station was held up, and the tram tracks in various suburbs were flooded. Several people were struck by the lightning, which set fire to a tram car at Southampton. A fireball crashed on an hotel roof. A tent in which ten North African soldiers were sheltering at Laon, in Northern France, was struck by lightning, and eight were killed. Four farm labourers in the Blois district were killed. The farm buildings were set on fire, and cattle were killed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 210, 6 August 1931, Page 7
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135TERRIFIC STORM Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 210, 6 August 1931, Page 7
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