The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-06

swarm, and IL there is a solid body in their
midst the earth will come in contact
with it.
THE AWFUL CONSEQUENCES.
Should meteor like a burning noun
tain strike the earth with the rapidity of
forty-four miles a second (Which would be
the velocity of one of the L.eonids) it would
burst in the shell of the earth, cause the
release of the pent-up fires in the globe,
and produce such a terrible catalysis as is
here represented. 1t would fall as "a burn
ing star falling into the ocean, coming
suddenly as a dark object out of space like
"a thief in the night 1t would cause a ter
rbie earthquake, and change the water into
Napor, penetrate TO the melted center OF
the earth, and then cause a flame of burn
ing lava TO burst out as from great Iur-
mace, causing terrific cyclones and spread
ing over one-third of the globe, the lava
falling in the form of fiery hail. The gas,
coal and coal oil in the earth would be
ignited by the fire bursting out in other
portions of the earth, and would cause an
immense smoke that would put out the
SUM-, and as it rolled over the other parts
of the earth all celestial objects would be
blotted out as if scroll was rolled to-
gether." A faint picture, in miniature, of
such catastrophe can be formed from
Professor Dana's description of the great
eruption of Kilauea, Hawaii. lie says:
THE stream of melted lava, like fire,
plunged into the sea with louo detonations.
The burning lava, on meeting the waters,
was shiVered like melted glass into millions
OF particles, winch were thrown up INTO the
clouds that darkened the sky, and fell like
a fiery hail over the surrounding country.
Vast columns of steam and vapors rolled
before the wind, Whirling in ceaselesS ag1-
tation, and the rejecting glare of the lavas
formed a fiery armament overhead
Professor Kinney says: THE intense heat
of the fountain and stream of lava caused
an influx of cool air from every quarter
This caused terrific whirlwindS, the most
dangerous of anything about the volcano
Now compare this awful seismic disturb
ance on so small scale, with what would
occur were body one-fourth the size of the
moon, or even less, meeting the earth, with
the immense velocity of forty-four miles in
a second; it will be easily seen what awful
results must occur-in fact, the divine
accuracy. But, fortunately, it was not to be
a universal destruction of the whole earth,
but of only one-third of the earth; but the
rest of the earth must suffer to great eX-
tent from the shock of the accompanying
earthquake and the intense heat. The waters
of the oceans and seas would become Vapor-
lied and for a time darkness would cover
the earth as at creation. The fashion of
the earth passes away The earth's surface
would undergo change, mountains would
be leveled, the bottom Of the ocean would
be raised, there would be no more sea-,
and the earth would become what 1t was
at creation. We would then have a new
earth, with heavy watery canopy that
would be a new heaven. Before this dreadful
calamity the Savior will appear, and trans
fer his people away from this earth until
the seismic and other tellurlc troubles nave
ceased
Wneu IIllS CdldlySlS COlLeS IL VIII SouSO
the greatest earthquake that the earth has
ever experienced. When the Rocky noun
tains were upheaved that split our earth
from pole to pole, that was terrible
earthquake, but nothing to be compared
with this, when the earth will come in con-
tact with the burning mountain men
toned in Revelation viii, verses and TO-
and xvi, verse IS, And there was a great
earthquake such as was not since man was
the earth an grea ba ey an1
stone about the weight of a talent Q20
pounds) cOmeth down out OF heaven upon
men, and men blasphemed God, because or
the plague, for 1t. was exceeding great"
Under this catalysis the polarity or the
earth would be changed by the addition of
added matter and the impact of the col
lision. and the mountains would fall That
are kept up by the internal pressure of the
melted rocks, the bottom of the ocean would
be raised and we would have new heaven
and a new earth"
This is to be the end: whether it occurs
next year or at some subsequent period no
man knows, but from what we know from
OF what will occur at the next visit of these
meteors, all will be anxious until 1t is
Professor Kalb, the eminent astronomer,
Of Vienna, says that this awful effect VIII
occur at the next period on NOV. I5; 1879;
Our earth will pass through the border o. OF
this swarm or next Sunday night (the l3th),
when there will be some display but MOTH
ing like what it will be next year. when the
earth passes through the center or tine
There are many instances on record of
with destructive effects. 1t is recalled that
on Jan. IA. SIC, ten people were killed in
China by the fall of a meteor In the year
1923 thirty-five villages in Saxony We're de-
stroyed by the fall of q. meteor and many
men and animals killed. On Sept. A. 15ll,
one man and four animals were destroyed
by falling meteors near Crema. On Nov; 4,
1749, a meteor struck the mast OF snip
that was crossing the Atlantic, killing five
seamen Each of these cases can be re-
garded as the fall of small comet upon
our world. 1.-The remarkable meteor of Aug.
Is, 17S3," says Herschel, trayersed the
whole of Europe from Shetland to Rome,
with a velocity of thirty miles second at
a height of fifty miles from the surface of
the earth with a light surprising that of
the moon and real diameter of fully one
half mile"
a CAPTAIN Willmann reported that two of
his sailors were killed at sea by the fail OF
a nine-pound meteorite. Not long after this
a monk was killed near Milan in the same
way, while meteor which fell near New
Concord in 1860 broke a railroad tie in two.
j. II. BOYD, M. d.
Indianapolis, Nov. 5.