ELECTRICAL STORM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18942, 13 February 1925, Page 7

ELECTRICAL STORM.

MANY EXCITING INCIDENTS. THREE WORKMEN STUNNED. Exciting incidents occurred in a heavy sform that broke over the town ot "Maitland. New South Wales, early one morning recently. Heavy thunder and vivid lightning accompanied the storm. Fred Woodall, a horsedriver, received a shock in a blinding flash which played over his horse and harness and which left the animal in a dazed condition for about an hour. Three* council employees engaged in street cleaning were stunned for a time, and their shovels, brooms, and scoops were knocked from their hands. At Lorn a wireless set was struck, the current afterwards travelling down a pole and charring it. Lightning also smashed the insulators at Mr. Wills' re-r sidence, and all the electric globes in the house were rendered useless. A breadcarter wlufe opening his cart door was thrown back and stunned. The horse took fright and ran into a fence, and bread was strewn over the road. In the same locality a resident came across a cat that had been killed; the hair had been burnt off the whole of its body.