[meteorite-list] Newspaper Article, 04-19-1906 Cemetery Meteorite
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:06:59 2004 Message-ID: <OE19uWaO9T0Ptd4VcII00023fca_at_hotmail.com> ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C270A1.096A4440 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable New York Time New York City, New York Thursday, April 19, 1906 Page: 10 FOUND METEOR FRAGMENT Cemetery Workman Digs Up One Buried for Twelve Years Special to The New York Times RAHWAY, N.J., April 18. - John Godfray, in excavating for a monument toda= y in Hazlewood Cemetery, dug up a meteor fragment weighing 25 pounds. It = seemed to be composed of fused minerals, glass, stone and steel. There is= a mixture of vari-colored stones intermingled through the otherwise gray= mass. Tweleve years ago Keron Kiernan, keeper of the cemetary, while at work on= e afternoon, heard a whistle, like escaping steam, coming through the clo= uds overhead. Then came a bright light, an oder of sulpher filled the air= , and about fifty feet from where he stood a missile buried itself in the= ground scorching the grass about and melting the gravel where it fell. T= he opening showed the object to have buried twelve feet deep. Since then = it has gradually worked to the surface. ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C270A1.096A4440 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY STYLE=3D"font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV><FONT size=3D2= > <P> </P> <P>New York Time</P> <P>New York City, New York</P> <P>Th= ursday, April 19, 1906</P> <P>Page: 10</P> <P>FOUND METEOR FRAGMENT</P> <= P>Cemetery Workman Digs Up One Buried for Twelve Years</P> <P>Special to = The New York Times</P> <P>RAHWAY, N.J., April 18. - John Godfray, in exca= vating for a monument today in Hazlewood Cemetery, dug up a meteor fragme= nt weighing 25 pounds. It seemed to be composed of fused minerals, glass,= stone and steel. There is a mixture of vari-colored stones intermingled = through the otherwise gray mass.</P> <P>Tweleve years ago Keron Kiernan, = keeper of the cemetary, while at work one afternoon, heard a whistle, lik= e escaping steam, coming through the clouds overhead. Then came a bright = light, an oder of sulpher filled the air, and about fifty feet from where= he stood a missile buried itself in the ground scorching the grass about= and melting the gravel where it fell. The opening showed the object to h= ave buried twelve feet deep. Since then it has gradually worked to the su= rface.</P></FONT><BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_001_0006_01C270A1.096A4440-- Received on Thu 10 Oct 2002 10:07:26 PM PDT |
 StumbleUpon del.icio.us reddit Yahoo MyWeb
|