Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-17
SANTA ROSA METEOR
WAS WIDEL Y
DISTRIBUTED
Fragment of the Big MeSSen-
ger From Space Found Near
TuCumcari and Is Now on
Exhibition.

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 re-
ported as having been found near
Montoya, while now ONE the report
from Tucumcari that the Tucumcari
Trust company has in its banking
house a fragment of the meteor weigh
inc eighty pounds.
That the meteor was seen as far
suuth as Roswell is shown by the fol-
lowing from the Roswell Record:
As yesterday afternoons Record
spread over town and distributed the
news of the great falling meteor that
burst nea 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.
1T appeared high in the sky, the
brightest light | ever behcld. In a
very short space Of time Il had reach
"a the earth and nothing was left but
"A milky trail, followed by what APP
pcared to he n cloud Of smoke" And
his comment was general.
Bryan Barton, superintendent of the
rolling stock of tho railroad on this
division. and John Pryor saw the me-
teor as they We're standing i'm the rail-
road yards. Mr.. PRYOR thought IL fell
back Of the round house, but Bryan
gave IT as his opinion that It fell in
the vicinity of Riverside s~tockyards.
r, w. Johnson, the shccpman, was
at his ranch forty or fifty miles north
Of town. and not only saw the meteor
but heard the rumble Of the explosion.
II was seen to pass far north of him.
l.. w. Adams had a party of three
Kansas prOSpectors out driving. and
they saw it plainly from their car
riage while east Of town. They thought
10 fen in a field on the north side Of
the road and, Mr.. Adams states, the
entire party hunted for it about two
hours, and finally gave IL up on the
supp0sition hat il had buried itself in
the fine. loose soil, Put they were
convinced hat it had fallen in that
particular field.
n happened that the Records NOV
ing picture machine did not catch
the phenomenon Tho closest contact
with The wonderful sight made by any
OF tho force WAS when a reporter
sauntercd M 60 = Knot of citizens in
front Of Amonctt's harness store and
heard them talking of the marvellous
vision they had Just Witnessed w.
NJ. Atkinson. county commissioner.
aid it was a shooting star. and he
knew Il was, although he had never
seen ono ia dav time before. T.. r.
Amonctt thought II was a Kite th1t
had broken loose from It's string. He
would nave vcnturcd a small sum on
his opinion. q. 4. Finley deputy sher-
in, sided with the commissioner in
the belief that II was a daylight shoot
ing star. city Marshal J. J. Iiascoc
was present and proved 10 be a
doubling Thomas" evidently putting
little crcdence in the whole story
Mr.. Amonctt was sur the kite had
fallen on Morrison BROTHERS store,
aud said that II anyone would 60 up
there ana look they would find IL. At
kinson and Finley could not agree a'
to where II had fallen, but both
thought somewhere on North I'M ~
kinsun seemed 10 think 10 had fallen
ncar the Milnc-Push ranch, but his
wish was probably father 20 the
thought-it having been rumorcd thai
gold. silver and diamonds are fro
aucntly found in the fragments of me-
tcors.
Several other pcoplc saw the light
Of the meteor and some saw the OBJ
Jet itself. Nobodv IN Roswell sup
poecd that II was more than n hun
drod miles away. II must ave been
q sncctacle worth bcholding at Santa
Rosa.