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SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS, The Hull Packet and East Riding Times (Hull, England),
  Friday, July 6, 1866; Issue 4250.
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  An inquest was held at Deeping St Nicholas about seven miles from Stamford,
  on  Monday,  before Mr Edwards, coroner, on the bodies of the wife and
  daughter of a man named Couson, who were killed on Saturday last.  During the
  violent storm which passed over that district deceased was sitting in the
  front room of her cottage, surrounded by her children, when there came a
  vivid flash of lightening, which struck the house, entering by the chimney
  and roof, and in an instant the unfortunate woman and child nearest her side
  were killed.  The other children, terrified and crying, were left unhurt by
  the side of their dead mother and sister.  The latter was about four years
  old.  The bodies presented scarcely any marks of disfigurement. It is said
  the clock in the cottage stopped at about two o'clock, the time of the
  occurrence.  Four sheep were killed in a field at Ketton, near Stamford, by
  the lightning; and the fine old Saxon church at Wittering was struck.