[meteorite-list] NP Article, 08-1913 Aerolite Wrecks Village
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:10:09 2004 Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV166tfUDbbkA000007d7_at_hotmail.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C30676.1899DC30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Title: Indianapolis Star=20 City: Indianapolis, Indiana=20 Date: Sunday, August 31, 1913 AEROLITE WRECKS VILLAGE Ball of Fire Drops From Sky, Destroying Countryside MADRID, Aug. 30. - The village of Alcocer, near Valencia, has bven = practically destroyed and the surrounding country ravaged by an aerolite = of great size. Shortly after noon there dropped from the a cloudless = sky a great lurid ball of fire. a deafening serios of detonations, like = a thousand rifle shorts, resounded through the still atmosphere and = scattering tongues of flames leaped in all directions as the heavy mass = buried itself in the earth. The surrounding coutry was set on fire, and = within an hour nothing but blackened masses of smoldering cinders = ramined of farmhouses, hay lofts, trees and gathered crops of hay, wheat = and olives. The whole population of Alcocer was at the moment attending = a requiem service in the church, some two miles distant. But for that = circumstance the loss of life would have been terrible. As it was, five = persons were seriously burned, one of them succumbing to the injuries. = At the moment the aerolite fell a rain of stones, some the size of = oranges and weighing nearly two pounds, burst over the neighboring = villages of Benavites and Cuarill. The ground was covered in placed to = a depth of five inches by these stones. A pungent odor of sulphur = pervaded the locality for hours after the phenomenon. www.MeteoriteArticles.com ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C30676.1899DC30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type = content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1141" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=3DMailContainerBody=20 style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; = COLOR: #000000; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; PADDING-TOP: 15px; FONT-STYLE: = normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; = BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; TEXT-DECORATION: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: = none"=20 leftMargin=3D0 topMargin=3D0 acc_role=3D"text" CanvasTabStop=3D"true"=20 name=3D"Compose message area"><?xml:namespace prefix=3D"v" = /><?xml:namespace prefix=3D"o" /> <DIV>Title: Indianapolis Star <BR>City: Indianapolis, Indiana <BR>Date: = Sunday,=20 August 31, 1913</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>AEROLITE WRECKS VILLAGE<BR>Ball of Fire Drops From Sky, = Destroying=20 Countryside<BR> MADRID, Aug. 30. - The village = of=20 Alcocer, near Valencia, has bven practically destroyed and the = surrounding=20 country ravaged by an aerolite of great size. Shortly after noon = there=20 dropped from the a cloudless sky a great lurid ball of fire. a = deafening=20 serios of detonations, like a thousand rifle shorts, resounded through = the still=20 atmosphere and scattering tongues of flames leaped in all directions as = the=20 heavy mass buried itself in the earth. The surrounding coutry was = set on=20 fire, and within an hour nothing but blackened masses of smoldering = cinders=20 ramined of farmhouses, hay lofts, trees and gathered crops of hay, wheat = and=20 olives. The whole population of Alcocer was at the moment = attending a=20 requiem service in the church, some two miles distant. But for = that=20 circumstance the loss of life would have been terrible. As it was, = five=20 persons were seriously burned, one of them succumbing to the = injuries. At=20 the moment the aerolite fell a rain of stones, some the size of oranges = and=20 weighing nearly two pounds, burst over the neighboring villages of = Benavites and=20 Cuarill. The ground was covered in placed to a depth of five = inches by=20 these stones. A pungent odor of sulphur pervaded the locality for = hours=20 after the phenomenon.<BR></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>www.MeteoriteArticles.com</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C30676.1899DC30-- Received on Sat 19 Apr 2003 02:17:58 PM PDT |
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