KILLED BY FIREBALL.
A scene in which a man was killed by a ball of fire during a thunderstorm was described at a Grimsby inquest on George Sidney Beesou, aged 33, a Cleethorpes boilermaker. '' I was watching the storm," said Mr. William Hicks, a coal merchant, " and saw a ball of'fire come rolling through the air. It came into contact with a chimney stack on the roof of the Shades Inn, and iiwtantly there was a tcrr.'.fic explosion. Tire chimney was blown to pieces, the roof of- the inn was stripped, and the windows were broken for an area of 50 yards, around. "I thought that my house was going, to collapse. When the air cleared 1 found Beeson lying unconscious among the debris Of the chimney." The coroner, in recording a verdict of " Death from misadventure," said that the chance of a man being killed in that way was -one in a million. Ball lightning was the rarest and most dangerous form of lightning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)
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