The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-05-28
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OH the Line Between Iowa and Mini

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The Jackson (Minn.) Republic Of the 17th
has the following: Eis....l
Last Saturday afternoon things in the air
were lively and exciting. Thunder, light
ming, hail, and rain are common and neces-
! sary in any weli-rcGulated and healthy COIN
mHnity; whirlwindS, water-spuuts, and
even dimiButive cyclones are quite common
and comparatively innocent aeria! diver
sious; but when it comes to shooting five
bundred-pounG red-bot balls OF iron or like
metallic kind promiscuously through the
| air, then 1t partakes the talure OF grandeur
and sUb!imity, and. il one happens to be
in range, it approaches mighty near what
might be termed danger. Such was actually
the missile fh3t went ricocheting through
space that afternoon, and whose track was
PLAINLY visible throughout this section Of
country, and The explosion Of which made
windows rattle and people tremble.
A few OF the unsuspecting undertook to
palm the long, red, smoky. skyward SUBJ
stance of as a peculiar cloud, and the ex.
ceded that il was 4 meteor. On Monday all
doubt in this direction ceased when Mr..
Ridley, OF Estherville, brought to the Re
public office piece OF the meteor itself,
and which he saw taken from the Identical.
spot where it fell. 1t had opened the earth
| for SPACE Of ten feet acrcss, Just over the
| line in the town Of Emmet, Iowa. One
piece weighing two and one half pounds
had been dug out when he left. 1t threw
soGs about for fifteen rods, and other
evidences went to show that Il little
perseverance would cXhume the strange
| aerial visitor that had so suddenly sought
sepulturc in the beautiful valley Of the Des
Moines. On Wednesday Mr.. S. u. Weir
came to our Office, and who first discovered
the terra. .iirTn0 destination Of The new conner,
and infol med us that after digging fifteen
| feet they reached the iivc-hundred-pcund
wonder which had been driven that distance
! into the ground, and ten feet OF which was
in solid blue clay. The parties succeeded
| in raising it by means OF levers and chains,
and it weighed four hundred and thirty
one pounds, another piece thirty-two
pounds, and, with other pieces that
were found, made the whole meteor safe
|ly five hundred pounds. It's exterior is
rather ragged, and its exact composition
It's mMIer or spccuEltion. LII size II is
two feet in length, and fourteen by twenty
once inches; hence the subllmity in con-
templatiug the body, its course, its mo-
mentum, as we'll as its destination. It's
starting point is matter not easily figured,
its exact orbit not positively known; but
its destination is not Il matter OF specula-
ton, for within twelve rods OF the school
house near. John Barber's, about 4 mile
east OF the residence OF our good friend
Charles Jarvis, that burning, bursting,
cannon-rcsouuding lightning-specd missile
came in contact with the earth.
Mr.. W. r. Pingrey S!s in our Office yes
terday and informed us that another piece
that weighed about one hundred aud fifty
pounds was arterward found on A. A. Bin
grcy's farm, about two miles from the other,
and which was buried five feet in the solid
clay.
The track Of this meteor was observed for
} miles around and the explosion heard in
many places. ;:.s-. 81. -s.".....l.