[meteorite-list] NP Article, 07-1896 Meteorite Kills Children, Brings Rain

From: Pekka Savolainen <pekka.savolainen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:40 2004
Message-ID: <3EEFCB6A.4030806_at_dlc.fi>

Hello, Mike, Mark and the list,

to me it sounds a legend, no people has been killed by meteorites.

Maybe the keyword is "reported". In earlier history you can find
several cases, like 1829, July, US, an indian killed (Athenm 1836,
p. 803).

I have tried to find information about some old finnish falls, and in
fact the old newspapers are the best and in some cases the only way
to find this data. So I wonder, who was the first, who said, there
are no reported cases of people being hit / killed by a meteorite,
but he / she must have a crystal-ball or unhuman knowledge about
the history. In this case we can naturally ask the meaning for the
word "reported". If somebody was hit by Nantan, to whom the
report should have been sent, to this list or to NC? I should count
the old articles in some cases as "reports", because they are in older
falls many times the only printed / writen documents of the case.

No one knows the victims of the big older falls, like Nantan, and
if we count also Tunguska as a hit, only dead reindeers was reported,
but I can bet, also people were died, but in these cases the russians
didnīt give / get the information. The circumstances in many areas
were / are a kind, you canīt get a relaible report. And ok, Tunguska
was not a meteorite, propably a "dirty snowball"...

The cataloque of aerolites and bolides covers A.D. 2 to A.D. 1860,
so there is no information about just this case in this database.

Just my 2 cents again...;-

take care,

pekka



tett wrote:

> Hello Mark and List,
>
>
>
> Is there other evidence that two boys were killed in 1896 by a
> meteorite? I was under the impression that there were no reported
> cases of people being killed by meteorites.
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>
> Cheers,
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>
>
> Mike Tettenborn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: MARK BOSTICK <mailto:thebigcollector_at_msn.com>
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> To: Meteorite List <mailto:meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 3:40 PM
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] NP Article, 07-1896 Meteorite Kills
> Children, Brings Rain
>
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> Paper: Fort Wayne News
>
> City: Fort Wayne, Indiana
>
> Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1896
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> Page: 1
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> METEOR FALLS
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> Strikes a House and Kills Two Children - Brings Rain
>
> Chichihua, Mex., July 14. - Particulars have reached here of the
> fall of a meteor in a small mining town of Santos Reis, this
> state. The meteor was of immense size and as it descended through
> the air it was a molten mass of metal. It made its descent at
> noon, and was accompanied by a report louder than that made by a
> cannon. It struck the house of a miner and demolished the building
> killing two children and then buried itself in the ground to a
> great depth. A large part of the meteor was broken off when it
> struck, and it was sent to the National museum at the City of
> Mexico. There has been no rain in that section for nearly a year,
> but within twenty minutes after the fall of the meteor the sky
> became overcast with clouds and a heavy fall of rain took place.
>
>
>
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> meteor and meteorite articles.
>

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