[meteorite-list] NP Article, 12-1928 Meteor Fall Kills Women & Baby

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:18:31 2004
Message-ID: <BA850436.43B2%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Hi Mark & all,
        I tried to look up a Decatur or Greendale meteorite and none is
listed. Anyone have any idea of this was, in fact, a fall?
        Thanks, Michael


on 2/28/03 11:13 AM, MARK BOSTICK at thebigcollector_at_msn.com wrote:

> Paper: Decatur Evening Herald
> City: Decatur, Illinois
> Date: Saturday, December 22, 1928
> Page: 1
>
> DECLARES METEOR FELL ON HOUSE AND KUKKED WOMAN, BABY
>
> (By United Press)
>
> GREENDALE, N.Y., Dec. 22 - Farmers in this neighborhood Saturday are
> convinced that a meteor fell from the sky. Friday night and set fire to a
> farm house here, burning a woman and a year old baby to death and injuring
> six others painfully.
> Scientists say such a thing happens once in 500 years.
> J. R. Hicks, a storeheeper, related Saturday that he stood in front of
> his store and saw a ball of fire shooting from the sky. It landed on the
> roof of William Peator's house he said.
> Mrs. William Peator, 43, and Ramond Ford Jr., her one year old nephew
> were killed. Others in the house, Minner and Doris Peator, five years old
> twins, Ruth Peator, 16, and Mrs. Raymond Ford, 28, were painfully burned.
>
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