BIG DEATH ROLL FOLLOWS STORM.
FATALITIES CAUSED BY LIGHTNING FLASHES.
United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 6, 12.10 p.m. LONDON, August 5. Terrific thunderstorms, causing widespread damage in Britain, France and Belgium, raged all afternoon. In London the storm was accompanied by torrential rain and thunderclaps. Train tunnels were flooded. AH traffic from King’s Cross station was held up and tram tracks to various suburbs were flooded. Several people were struck by lightning. A fisherman, using a metal rod which was struck, was rent in twain. Lightning set fire to a tram car in Southampton. A fireball crashed on an hotel roof. A tent, in which ten North African soldiers were sheltering at Laon, Northern France, was struck by lightning. Eight were killed. Four farm labourers in the Blois district were killed. Farm buildings were set on fire and cattle were killed.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 6 August 1931, Page 1
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