Derby Daily Telegraph - 15 June 1931
GREAT STORM LEAVES A WAKE OF HAVOC
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Lightning struck telephone wires in Shirley-lane, Brailsford. The wires fell on a valuable brood mare belonging Mr. J. Goodall, Birch Farm, and so injured it that it had to be shot....
A horse in a field at Ednaston was struck by lightning and killed....