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From: "Daryl Crabtree" <>
Subject: [AUS-VIC-NorWest] WEST WIMMERA MAIL
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:43:59 +1000


March 6, 1914
Kathleen BEARD, the little daughter of Mr. Elijah BEARD, of Neuarpurr, had a very startling experience during a thunder storm last Friday afternoon. She and her sister were in one of the home paddocks waiting for the cows to come from an adjoining one. A post of the dividing fence having decayed at its base had fallen over and Kathleen was sitting on the wires on one end of the post and a cow was stepping over them on the opposite side, when suddenly a flash of lightning struck the wires. Child and cow both felt the shock, the former having her clothing burnt through in two places, and one of her legs paralyzed for a time. The cow staggered about and seemed dazed. The storm was so severe that wires were struck in three different parts of the fence. A barbed wire had a piece out right off. It was lying some distance apart.

Daryl Crabtree
Gladstone
Qld
Web site for West Wimmera Mail
www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/goroke/


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