Whole Room Wrecked By Lightning Stroke
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE THAMES, Aug. 2:. During a storm lightning struck the kitchen chimney of a house at Turua, causing the bricks to crash through the roof into the room below. The mother, Mrs. Gray, had set dinner, and she and her four children had a providential escape. The stove was blown into the room, the table was smashed to matchwood by the bricks, and rain poured in through the gaping hole above. Mrs. Gray was struck on the shoulder by falling debris, and a son was pinned to his chair at the table. Except for a severe shaking, however no ono was injured. ’
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6619, 4 August 1931, Page 8
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