September 16, Campo Maior, Portugal Lightning strikes an armory, igniting gunpowder and causing an explosion which kills roughly 1, The lightning strike occurred at 3 a. Several sources online state the bones of those killed during the explosion were gathered and made into a chapel to honor their loss. However, the chapel most often referenced, the Capela dos Ossos, is decorated with the skeletons of some 5, monks. By the Late Wyndham Beawes, Esq. In Two Volumes.
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His body was found the next morning around by two zoo personnel. In order to reach the enclosure, Hale would have needed to scaled a guard rail, crossed 6 feet of lawn, and dropped 14 feet into the moat before the bears attacked him. Four bears were housed in the area: one male weighing approximately lbs. It was a gruesome sight. January 25, image source, via newspapers. January 20, Facebook. September 16, Campo Maior, Portugal Lightning strikes an armory, igniting gunpowder and causing an explosion which kills roughly 1, The lightning strike occurred at 3 a.
