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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 49, 4 December 1902, Page 20

In the year 1900 in the United States 713 persons •were killed by lieh<ning and 973 iniured by it. Of the lailled, 291 lost their lives out of doors, 158 in houses, 57 under trees, and 56 in barns ; 327 received their injuries in houses. 243 in the own. 57 in barns and 29 under trees. Since 1890 statistics as to the loss of life by lightning have been collected by the national weather buneau, and they show that from 700 to 800 persons are killed by lightning each year. *