FARM TRAGEDY
DAIRY MAN KILLED BY LIGHTNING United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, December 21. Lightning killed Herbert Fletcher (48) a dairy farmer, while he was tending cows on his farm near Nowra. His clothes were alight, and a dead cow lay beside him when his wife reached his side a few seconds after the tragedy. Other cows lay unconscious in the dairy yard.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20607, 22 December 1936, Page 9
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64FARM TRAGEDY Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20607, 22 December 1936, Page 9
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