STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
TELEPHONE USERS RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS. (Per Press Association). DUNEDIN, Last Night. A strange incident occurred at Tapanul to-day. An extremely heavy thunderstorm broke over the district about noon, and just after a flash of lightning, a woman who was in communication by telephone with Edievaie wa s knocked unconscious and did not recover for half an hour. It was then discovered that the woman who was speaking from Edicvale had also received a severe shock, having been knocked unconscious for fully five minutes.
The lightning also put all the fuses on the high tension wires out of action.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLXI, Issue 3481, 15 December 1926, Page 7
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100STRUCK BY LIGHTNING Manawatu Times, Volume XLXI, Issue 3481, 15 December 1926, Page 7
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