VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM.
[Fee Pbess Association. J • INVERCAEGILL, Maisch 1. A violent thunderstorm was experienced 'here between midnight . and five o'clock thia morning. Some of the peals were accompanied by a report like that of an enormous cannon. The lightning was very •vivid, and a contractor's workshop, in the centre of the town, was wrecked by >it. The iron roof had evidently been lifted bodily, and dropped back in its place, as all the nails are drawn about two inches. ]Every window was smashed, and a portion of the woodwork in front wsb shattered. A lead pipe was melted as if by fire, and a sheet of iron, blackened by the electric -fluid, was deposited on the footpath. So <far there-are no reports of other damage by the lightning, but the crops will have snffered Considerably from the wind and ■the 'hail.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4581, 1 March 1893, Page 3
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