SILHOUETTE BY LIGHTNING.
DcnrxG a thunderstorm on the night of September 29, the steamship DinsdaJehall of Newport, Monmouthshire, on a voyaw from Spain to New York, was struck by lightning, and the foremast fell on deck about 90ft of it being burned. ' Captain Clarke who was on the bride* was stunned « and f or -°T. time c vgrthmhuk»« niCAc. The nails . m his boots melted The man at the wheel was thrown violently on tho deck, and a gold cross he was m ng was .silhouetted™ his chest the mark remaining for several days. ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15169, 7 December 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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