Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-10-18
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 it was sboss eigat o'Siark ca the morning cf the 2sEh of January that tasre sns beard st Eamfs crash llke tkanSeF. fhe ressEn~ratiaas lasting for a fsw minutes sfferWarst fhe dctana- siaa wss heard sf ChiroAe. sitaated sl.oat s9 miles soafh of Zanha. and at E'ort Johnston and l,eyoad. a distance of alsaut s9 nllles in the opposite direc- ten aomAsa ass thas roeghiy the center us the aissract over which tbs actual sxFlasian ef tAe meteorlte tooA place AnOut nine a- u,. ness reacked the ressaeney shat several stones had fallen Ia ns5lre villages on ths eastern siepss of 1ouh4 naoobtsin. sshieh ia sst- uatsd immediately behind the Zomha settlement, and rises tp a height ef t.9ao feet above shs s-A. the settlement being ss aego frst
 Tea frsgmeuts in al wrre found. the iangusi seishing hve pounds lzss ounces. AS ons of tle villages tho peo- ple were found sguasfinE rouad the stone in a cAreie discassing tbe mir aele,- as they caliea c. No enc had touehed oF approached ffe sioee. aud ft was stiH lying where it fell when the ofsrials sent Ca investigate the matter arrived. The story of itn fall was given as follows
 "A woman wss pounding corn undsr a tree within about ten yards of her hut whea the stone fell The whole village heard thedstoaation immediately sfter~ ward. and gathered to where the wynn an ses standing Co view tAe stone. They were afraid of %. thinking if en- ekante8. and they sat at e distance round it. each giving version of its probable origin and meaning.-
 It feil on hard ground. but, as there were DO roots about 90 difficulty waa experienced in digging it ap complete.
 At Rlanfyre a hide before eight on ths same mofHiBg a star of exceptional byilhAEry was seen to pass across the sky in the direction of Lake shirwa (ruughly. west te esst). ieAyinR a trail or tan behind it. immediately followed by an explosion like a crash of thunder. Ar. McC cCiouaie states that the report sas heard with the precision of can non boom, while Mir. sharpe. who. al che time of the explosion. was on top of Zomlla mountain. heard one very loud report; then for some two mingses long rumbhng or buxzing noise. grad ually getting fainter and fainter.
 Expiosion. of meteorites are general ly folloVed hy sounds which have been vsriously nkened to tas Tapping of the wings of wild geese. the relieving of exrn. Turkish music, the roaring of a fire in s chimney, the noise of a cazs rfage on Che pavement. and the tearing of calico Mir. Fletcher. ths keeper of the department of minerals. la bis 'In- troducfiou Co ths Study of Meteorises.- states that these sounds are probably due Co the Whiriing of the fragments through the air in the neighborhOod of the ob.erverz
 Az far as at present known. the ara over which the Iomhs stones fen repre- senfs about nine miles long by about three wide. but. inasmneh aa the frag- menfs collected are only those which were seen Co fall close to people or houses. it appears probable that a large number of stone. may have reached ths earth.--Lonaon Times