SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN INVERCARGILL.
THREE HORSES KILLED. Sy Telegraph. —Press Aesocsatton, Inteecaeoill, January 12. A severe thunderstorm passed over Invercargill this morning. The family of Mr Thomas Mills, consisting of six children, had a marvellous escape. The lightning knocked a portion of the chimney down, threw one child off a chair to the floor, passed from the kitchen along the passage to the sittingroom, smashed a window and made a large opening in -the front of the house. The clothes hanging on the wall on the side where the lightning made its exit were thrown to the opposite end of the room and were quite undamaged. Beyond tbe severe shock, the Mills family escaped uninjured. Three horses owned hy Mr T. Crack were killed by lightning daring the storm. The animals were standing alongside of a boarded fence with barbed wire on top. All fell in exactly the same position. Pieces of the wire were found 40yds away. The wire had broken at the barbs, which had all disappeared.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3331, 13 January 1898, Page 2
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