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Damage By
Lightning
MELBOURNE. - A flash I
ot lightning, which struck electric overhead power lines in South Mel- bourne last night ripped part of the roof of an S E.C. sub-station, blew out a door, and badly budded o. wall.
It caused three violent ex- plosions which could be Iheard a mile away, and blacked out thousands of 'homes in the South Mel- bourne, Port Melbourne and Albert Park districts.