The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-22

chilly yesterday. The meateor was said
70 have looked about like:
| 4 common wash tub.
| An exclams ton point.
Just a common wedge.
\ candy bucket.
| Your fist with a tail that whirled.
Big as hack.
! Splutteriug so You couldn't tell.
| Red hot stove.
| About the size Of q barrel.
About the size of q baby's head.
Simply a big ball % fire with a fan
shaped tail
Like a baseball bar, only shorter.
So dazzling you couldn't tell
As big as house.
a runaway moon with long whiskers-
Sam Amidon--'T was sitting in my
bedroom reading. l thought gemiay
sousers, some burglars trying TO blow up
my house. 1 got my gun and chased all
over the premises after a burglar"
Judge McCanless-~My boy Earl said
that some horse thief with a search
light was making a raid. He was so ex-
ciced l could hardly get him quiet"
A A Hyde-The light aroused me and
rushed to a south and west window and
caught the conclusion of the fash.
knew il was a meteor.
G.. W. c. Jone-The meteor wasn't
very far away. At my house it was &C.
coqnpanied by rushing wind.
VIII Fleming-I was in my house eat
ing lunch. The curtain was up al the
bottom ard 1 saw a brilliant square Of
light travel across the floor. The light
looked green. Then I heard the boom,
which was not like thunder but Ike a
cannon.
R. H. Mundevello-I didr't know there
had been & fash, but it was intense
enough to waken me up and a few min
utes later I heard the reveroerarion.
r. H. Roys-I was sitting in front or
Douglas avenue and watched the meteor.
Il looked like an exclama ton point
People were wonderfully excited about il.
The flash ,asted four or five seconds.
Tony Bruhn-I was taking 10 Mr..
Dando when the light came. I said:
That is Ike a meteor once saw when
was a boy in Germany and that meteor
exploded" Then, while Mr.. Dando and
were discussing that point, 'boomr
went he explosion.
r. Gittings-I have been watching al
my life for just such sight. I was s.
ting under tree when the light flashed
forth. Ny first thought was Meteor
1 hurried out into the open and watched
the display With great satisfaction. II
looked about the size OF the moon, circu-
lar in form and OF about the same quail
ity OF light as an arc light
c. E Barwise-I was sitting on my
back porch when suddenly out Of the sky
a appeared what seemed 10 be a locomotive
headlight. She came down al me a.
whooping ard grew as large as cart
wheel. Then I lodged.
Howard Moffa,t-I was walking on
Central avenue when 1 noticed sharp
shadows Of the trees moving quickly.
then glanced up, ard the big. white, siz-
cling ball of fire seemed 70 be coming
right al me. and got behind a tree.
Bruce Priddy-I got in little late, the
light simply calling my attention 70 the /
fact that meteor TOO quick for ME had /
passed. OF course heard the reverber- |
atior.
Dr. Fabrique-I saw the general fash /
but house got between me and the me- |
,e0r and shut of my view.
Dock Kelly-De elements is all ton up. |
whoopee. Didn't she fzz?
Fred Stuckey-I was sitting on the |
porch taking IL the beauties Of the night |
when the meteor popped out % the sky /
and aimed az me and made me sit up /
pretty straight in my chair.
Ed Jswe;t-Vhen I saw it. IL looked 20 +
be about nineteen feet above the top OF /
he Msrtinsou block.
c. 3. Yaie-Guy Reynolds came over
md woke me up and told me the gas
works had blown Up. We started down
own together but met a man who told
is 81 the meteor.
Il. c Houston OF Valley Center-The
Methodist minister Of Valley Center. J.
3. Case. had started out 10 his barn with
4 lantern. Ny" ne said. "but this old
antern IS a daisy'-ani then he noticed
he meteor. Many people in Valley CeC-
er say i, and talked with some young
men from a farm this morning who said
with pe-sisteucy which was humorous
hat the meteor was 50 close thar they
.e.t the heat on thei- faces
Lon Ho6icg-Thats an unearthly
ight,' was the frs thing I said. Two
minutes later came tie explosion. l have
,eard big cannon on ne field OF battle.
,ut none of them compared - hat report
expect that The meteor was a ball OF
netsoric metal as big a. a house when il
x2,odei. L was 4 NOS; wonderful DEM
rstratiol.
DR.. Johnson-Tha meteor which passed
.ve- the city al 1910 sunday night had
,een travelling through space for posi-
lIy thousands % years. but when i, en-
erred ne ea-ta's atmosphere the friction
= he mass against the sir heated i -
whics heat. iacs1daScence. and burned
whatever in i x1s combusuo'e- The
of meseors. falling stars or
shooting stars and aeroN1ss. a. cousins.
: about as follows: One half stick. oE5-
bird oxide q iron. oae-sIxth magneSla,
with a n5tle nickel ard sulphur. Shoot
ng seacs scarcely ever reach the earth.
,ro badly never. Occasionally sold sub
:ances from outside the earth's atuios-
here descend . the earth. These small
.o6ies are called aer6itss. Sometimes
hey are called ne;soric stones Or me.e-
rfc iroc. II discovered at once they are
ound 20 De ho.- Ordinary shooting stars
e noc accompanied by any audible
ound, although they are Sometimes seen
, break into pieces But occasionally
cry brilliant meteors are succeeded -
loud dstenatf3c 81 explosion Ike the
fscaa-ge y cannon. to.loxed By 1 noise