Later,
The rumors re the deaths from lightning, telegraphed last night, were well founded, although the details were incorrect. It appears that when the storm was at its height, Turnbull, a farmer, and two girls named Kilpatrick, a farmer's daughters on the way home from school, and Fraser, a farmer, took refuge in the barn of the latter on Forest Hill. They had not been long there when the lightning struck the house, killing the eldest girl, aged 12, and paralysing Fraser's lower extremities, and prostrating the other two. About three miles further east a son of Mr Alex. McGregor, a farmer, went to the door about the same time with a hammer in his band, and was struck dead. He was a youth of 14 years of age. Several persons in town state that they felt a scorching sensation while exposed to the storm. -Timaru Herald, 6/12/1883.
DEATH.
Kilpatrick. — Killed by lightning, at Forest Hill, Soutland, New Zealand, on 14th November, 1883, Euphemia Moffatt Kilpatrick, aged 11 years. 8 months, eldest daughter of James Kilpatrick, and granddaughter of Charles Laurie, Esq., late of Leith, Edinburgh. Scotsman please copy. -Southland Times, 29/11/1883.
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