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

[MARK BOSTICK]

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.

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


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