HOUSE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
WOMAN HAS NARROW ESCAPE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings, November 11. Effie Ellis, wife of a farmer at Pakowhai, had a narrow escape of fatal injuries as the result of a thunderstorm on Saturday. She was engaged in the kitchen and took the kettle off the stove, carrying it through to the open fire in the front of the house, where it would boil quicker. When she was in the passage lightning struck the kitchen, smashing the timber work, shattering the window panes, and setting fire to the kerosene stove. The shock flung her to the ground, and she wa‘s picked up stunned, with her face partially paralysed, but she had escaped the full force of the shock. She made a good recovery, and the paralysis dis-' appeared. The lightning struck an aerial connected with l.er house from a neighbouring macrocarpa tree.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1929, Page 14
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