STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3103, 27 June 1929, Page 5

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

TWO MEN DAZED. SIX ANIMALS KILLED. V "< -—; • -/"■ Struck by lightning while loading ll&y - on to a cart'.Von. jris; father^slfanii. v aft.; Matangi on Tuesday,: Mr. -"D,- Coventry J ; was, kno ekcji down ajfdj, rendered - uncoO" SCiOUS., ". ,■' ■ if:' , ■". -':■ :..■;' Mr. M. W. Coventry, who -was work* ing-beside'his son, was also knocked prostrate, and dazed' for a time, quickly recovered. : ' -. ->T- ■■■% Four cows and two calves were) killed; outright, and the whole herd of over 60 head thrown to the, ground, alid ; stampeded in great confusion.«;',. .;• Mr. Coventry; in relating his expedience,. . said his most vivid recollection, of the incident was a frrg^tfuljflaiA of lightning that rendered him phyrf' cally impotent. " : - The stack was fired, but the heavy, rain that was;; f ailing-: at the ; ;sSflWi/ '.:•;. quickly extinguished, the flames.. : , >',

Yesterday Mr.; was -i**. ported to^havel /completely; : reepvered^