Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
FALL OF METEoRlc sToNEs1 IN OHIO.

From the GAINESVILLE Courier.l
| An extraordinary phenomenon oc-
Cured on Tuesday, about noon, which
has been noticed in many codnties, in
Eastern Ohio. This occurrence, al
though it may be incredible to some,
was certainly noticed by many in differ
ent localities about the same time. In
this city the explosion or noise was dis
tinctly heard. At New Concord, six
teen miles east, a gentleman who was
out in his field hearda large crash, SINH
lar to sharp thunder, succession of
which lasted half minute, and then
died away like the sound of a receding
train of cars. On looking up he OBJ
served an object descending, with great
rapidity in an angling direction, and on
marking where it touched the earth,he
there found stone imbedded two feet
in the earth, and somewhat warm,
weighing 50 lbs. Another was found of
Sc lbs, one of 40 and one of 36 lbs in
weight, all within the circumference of a
few miles. Il small portion Of one of
these we have in our sauctum.
At Bellair the conclusion was so strong
as to force open the large doors of car
house.
At Malaga some of the inhabitants
were frightened, thinking it an earth
quake. The shock at Barnesville
seemed to jar the buildings to their foun-
dations.
Some boys were out in the woods near
McConnelsville, which is perhaps thirty
miles from Concord, and observed what
they termed large red ball descending
to the earth with fiery tail to it, but
were so frightened as Immediately to
return home.
From the Columbus Statesman, May 5th.l
A correspondent in New Concord,
Muskingum county, in letter published
in the Statesman on Tuesday morning,
mentioned a singular phenomenon in
that neighborhood on Tuesday. It was
an astounding noise in the sky like the
roar of cannon, which was followed by
the fall of number of stones, weighing
from two to fifty pounds. Since the
date of our correspondent note we have
received other letters from the same
region ofcountry, which not only corrob-
crate his statement but add greatly to
the sigularity of the phenomena. Itap-
pears that the noise alluded to was heard
through wide rage of country, and that
stones of the kind described were found
freshly imbedded in the earth in the
same manner, miles apart.
In Morgan, Muskingum, Coshocton:
Morrow and Tuscarawas counties the ex-
plosion was distinctly heard. Near
McConnellsville several boys observed
huge stone descend to the earth, which
they averred looked like red ball, leay-
ing line of smoke in it's wake. A gen.
tleman walking in his field, near New
! Concord, haard a t4rriGe erash like tlun=
der, which lasted half minute, and
then plainly saw large body descending
through the air in an angling direction
with velocity apparently much greater
than it could have attained by its own
momentum. Going to the spot where ii
touched the ground, he found rock
weighing over fifty pounds, embedded in
the earth a depth of two feet. The
phenomena seems to be unprecedented
These stones were found nearly fifty
miles apart, although the explosion was
heard at all the places mentioned from
the direction of New Concord. Houses
were shaken by the shock, and in one OF
two instances the doors burstsd OPEN
It occasioned great deal of consterna-
tion in that section of the country, as
well it might.