[meteorite-list] NPA 08-06-1924 Funeral Cortege Crazed by Johnstown Meteorite

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Mar 21 13:24:53 2005
Message-ID: <BAY104-F152F930D97EE33C84E6CD5B35B0_at_phx.gbl>

Paper: The Chronicle Telegram
City: Elyria, Ohio
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 1924
Page: 1 (of 10)

FUNERAL CORTEGE IS CRAZED BY METEOR

     DENVER, Aug. 6. - Hundreds of curious persons have been viewing, at the
Colorado State Museum, here, a huge meteor that fell recently near Elwell,
Colorado, creating great excitement in the surrounding countryside.
     The portion of the meteor on exhibition here weighs twenty pounds and
in size and shape resembles a man's head.
     The meteor thundered out of the sky in midafternoon, routed
participants in a baseball game, narrowly missing a funeral procession and
buried itself in the ground near the entrance of the church from which the
funeral cortege was passing.
     In falling, the meteor made a trail of gray-blue smoke and as it
proceeded downward sounded like a machine gun being fired at a distance.
     The sky traveler appeared high in the heavens directly over a field in
which a baseball game was in progress. They players were first attracted by
the noise of the falling body and scattered for shelter as it shot toward
earth. Whizzing through the air the meteor swerved and embedded itself two
feet in the ground near the church.
     A score of men secured shovels and picks and dug the aerial speeder
from its resting place.
     Several days later a second section of the meteor was discovered
embedded five feet in the earth on a ranch near Elwell. This piece weighed
fifty-four pounds.
     A third segment was found on a farm six miles south of Elwell, shortly
after the discovery of the fifty-four pound section. The third section of
the celestial body weighed only seven pounds.
     The first meteor, weighing twenty pounds, was purchased by the Colorado
State Museum and is on exhibition here.

(end)


This article is a couple of years after the Johnstown fall.


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