The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-12
No CLEW TO THE AEROLITE.
Evidence That il Fell a Good Ways
Out in The Ocean.

A Lady Writes From Button that
She Saw the Meteor and Heard a
Loud Explosion-The Search for It
Given Up-what People Who Saw
the Celelestial Visitor Say About It.
The aerolite which so startled the peo-
pie at at the Isle Of Hope was
the sole topic Of that suburb yesterday, and
among some there was for a while, talk
Of forming searching parties to look up
the stray celestial visitor in Skidaway
swamp where it was supposed at the
time to have fallen.
These ideas were soon abandoned
however, as from the different stories
told Of it, it must have fallen some thirty
TO forty miles from Isle of Hope. Celestial
distances like those on the water are de-
ceptive, and that accounts 70 r the near
ness ascribed by some people to the spot
where the aerolite had fallen.
From the reports 1t would appear that
il went out in the ocean of Ossabaw. A
gentleman living at Isle of Hope stated
that it was three or four minutes between
the passing of the meteor over there
and the sound Of the explosion.
This seems long interval, but the gener-
al evidence is that there was long in
terval between the passing of the meteor
and the explosion.
BLUFFTON SHARES THE EXCITEMENT.
From a letter from q lady living near
Button, S. c., it appears that the
meteor created as much noise and ex-
citement there as it did in this city and
vicinity.
The letter says: eve were sitting on
the piazza about quarter TO nine last
night when suddenly the whole country
was dimly lighted and in a second more
the place was brilliantly illuminated as
though by electricity. / was in the act of
getting up to see what caused 1t when the
meteor passed directly over the house. 1t
was the largest | have ever seen, and it
frightened me considerably. | was Just
regaining compOsure when a terrific noise
was heard, apparently directly overhead,
causing the house to tremble. ] suppose
it was the meteor striking the earth, or
the explosion of 1t. Whatever it was it
frightened me nearly as much as did the
great earthquake
From the above il would seem that
Savannah and Isle of Hope did not share
the sight alone. Blutfton and other
places along the coast near here saw the
explosion and heard the sound From
these accounts, it is conclusive that the
aerolite must have fallen far outat sea and
size to have made a report which was so
distinctly heard over so wide a range.
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT 1T.
Mr.. d. B. Morgan was sitting on his
piazza at the Isle of Hope when the
flying star came by He says it took q
decidedly ZigZag course, similar to the
coils Of a snake He saw the light of the
moving body, which for moment he took
to be moonlight until suddenly there came
an opening in the clouds and an object
which might have been taken for the
moon falling towards the earth appeared,
and as suddenly shot down towards the
earth and disappeared. Before it's dis
appearance he saw fash which he took
to be the explosion and it was nearly two
minutes later when he heard
the sound. This is conclu-
sive that it must have fallen some
distance out at sea. Mr. Morgan says if
there were any chance Of finding it he
would like to go on a searching party.
He thinks it would make a good find
THOUGHT 1T WAS DYNAMITE.
Mr.. j. f. La Far, who lives at Isle of
Hope, says there is no doubt that the
aeorolite fell way out at sea, and he
thinks the explosion was caused by its
bursting into a number of pieces He is
confident that it can never be found and
don't think anybody in that locality
would be foolish enough to look for it.
He thought that some one had exploded
a dynamite cartridge across the river UNI
til he was told of what had happened.
Mr.. Sullivan, Mr.. Chaplin and Mr. Dor
sett who also live out there, say that sew
eral minutes elapsed between the flash or
explosion and the time when the sound
was heard, and they are confident that it
did not fall anywhere near the Isle of
Hope.
Wherever the visitor from another world
went it will give the people of
the Isle of Hope something
to talk about for two or three days at any
rate, but it is safe to say that it will
never be discovered.