Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-22
SAYS THE METEOR BURSTS INTO
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Now Believed That The Large Body That Fell Near Santa Rosa, N. Mq Exploded Be- fore Touching The Ground.

The great meteor which fell near
 Santa Rosa last Monday and which
 was seen from all parts of central
 and southeastern New Mexico, seems to have been distributed all over the eastern portion of the territory by the terrific explosion which preceded its landing. A big fragment was first reported as having been found near Montoya, while now comes the report from Tucumcari that the Tucumcari Trust Company has in it's banking house a fragment of the meteor weighing eighty pounds.
 That the meteor was seen as far south as Roswell is shown by the fol loing from the Roswell Record:
 As yesterday afternoons Record spread over town and distributed the news of the great falling meteor that burst near Santa Rosa, everywhere could be heard the comment: Well saw that" and each would give a description of what the phenomenon appeared like to him. One man said: {: Tt appeared high in the sky. the brightest light I ever beheld In a very short space of time it had reach. ed the earth and nothing was left but milky trail followed by what appear ed to be cloud of smoke" And his comment was general.
 Bryan Barton, superintendent of the rolling stock of the railroad on this division and John Pryor saw the me. teor as they were standing in the railroad yards Mir. Pryor thought it fell back of the roundhouse, but Bry- a ff g- in the vicinity of the Riverside stock yards.
 R. W. Johnson, the sheepman. was at hi sranch forty or fifty miles north of town and not only saw the
 teor, but heard the rumble of the ex- plosion
 L. W. Adams had a party of three Kansas pTospectors out driving and they saw it plainly from their car riage while east of town. They thought it fell in a field on the north side of the road, and Mr. Adams states, the entire party hunted for it about two hours and Enally gave it up on the supposition that it had buried itself in the fine. loose soil. But they were convinced that it had fallen in that particular field.
 It happened that the Records nov ing picture machine did not catch the The closest contact with the wonderful sight made by any of the force was when a reporter saun- tered up to a knot of citizens ,in front of Amonett's harness store and heard them talking Of the marvellous vision they had just witnessed. w. M. At kinson, county commissioner, said it was 8 shooting star, and he knew it was, although he had never seen one in day time before E. T. Amonett thought that it was a kite that had broken loose from it's string. He would have ventured small sum on his opinion. O. z. Finley, deputy sher- if. decided with the commissioner in the belief that it was a daylight shoot ing star. City Marshall J. J. Rascoe wsa present and proved to be a Doubling Thomas" evidently putting little credence in the whole story. Mir. Amonett was sure tha kite" had fallen on Morrison Bros store and said that if anyone would go up there and look they would find 1t. Atkinson and Finley could not agree as to where it had fallen, but both thought somewhere on North Hill. Atkinson seemed to think 1t had fallen near the Milne-Bush ranch. but his wish was PrUUaUIy Idlner 10 Ine thought il having been rum0red that soidi. siii- yer and diamonds are frequently found in the fragments of meteors.
 Several other people saw the lie' of the meteor and some saw the ob- 1 fect itself. Nobody in Roswell sup posed that it was more than a hun fred miles away. It must have been spectacle worth beholding at Sadta | Rosa.