STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
■ ■ . . *p -. THREE KILLED IN GERMANY SEVERAL OTHERS INJURED. ! • ■ ' -A ' ~< -\ By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright I ■ ' ' ' ' • .'■'". ,-;.:.; London, June 8. , Thunderstorms, accompanied by heavy ' rain, have prevailed .in the South of England and in Germany during the .last three days. , „.- " A regiment of infantry, while marching at Konigsbruch, Germany, I was struck by lightning,;three of the soldiers being killed outright, and 10 severely and five slightly injured. Several other isolated deaths have been reported. ~..,. ...,, While a woman was walking along the top of a,'cliff at Heme Bay, Essex, she was struck by lightning, receiving. a severe, but . not.. fatal, shock. ' ' '*« '' "'" .""". .'.■;'■'"':•'"■ ■':.: ' Lightning damaged the army balloon factories and workshops at Farnborough. EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE. (Received June 9, 11.50 p.m.) ' • Berlin, June 9. Lightning caused the explosion of a dynamite factory near Cologne, ._" The workmen had evacuated the premises, foreseeing the ) storm, but 80 persons in the . neighbourhood were injured. , / ,;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14392, 10 June 1910, Page 5
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