[meteorite-list] NPA 07-19-1917 Colby Meteorite Is Causing Sensation

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Grand Rapids Tribune
City: Grand Rapids, Wisconsin
Date: Thursday, July 19, 1917
Page: 4 (of 8)

COLBY METEOR IS CAUSING A SENSATION

     Marshfield Herald: S. A. Williams of Colby was in Marshfield Wednesday 
and had with him a good-sized piece of the meteor that fell at that place on 
July 4th.  The past week hundred of people have visited Colby to view the 
scene of the phenomena and examine the fragments of the big meteor that were 
unearthed by Mr. Williams on the Jordan Farm in the city limits.  Mr. 
Williams says the Colby meteor is one of the largest that has ever fallen 
and been recovered in this country, weighing over 300 pounds.  When it 
entered the earth it struck a large stone and was broken and splintered, the 
largest piece being found between four and five feet below the surface.  As 
a terrific explosion occurred just before the meteor struck, an explosion 
was heard 20 miles distant from the scene, it was figured that the huge 
meteor burst when entering the atmosphere that surrounds the earth's 
surface.  This is evidenced from the fact that one of the fragments found 
back of the Lutheran church and the other on the Jordan farm, a half mile 
distant.

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