Damage by lightning
House Struck At Princetown
A renewal of the gale accompanied by thunder, lightning, and heavy rain, was experienced in the West yesterday.
At Princetown where there was a 90 miles an hour wind, the house of the station master on the Great Western Railway was struck by lightning, and Mrs. E Gibbons had an alarming experience and a narrow escape, the chimney of the house being split from top to bottom and crashing through the roof into the kitchen, where she was standing. Although Mrs. Gibbons was suffering from shock, she received no injury.
A Princetown railway employee was struck by lightning, his nose being burnt.
Western Morning News – Saturday 07 December 1929
