KILLED BY LIGHTNING
RELIEF WORKER'S FATE STORM AT NEWCASTLE (Received February 21. 10.15 p.m.) SYDNEY. Feb. 21 A vivid flash of lightning during an intense electrical storm over the Newcastle district this afternoon struck a relief worker dead and injured two others, one of them seriously. The man killed was John Hogan, the others being J. S. Duffrey and It. Vale. Duffrey was admitted to hospital for urgent treatment. The men were standing near a picket fence when the lightning struck right into their midst. During a suddent storm in Sydney this afternoon lightning damaged a building in the suburb of Waterloo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 13
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