The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-24
CANNOT FIND METEOR IN LEE The Whole Countryside Is
 Aroused. FARMERS IN A CONFLICT Negroes m Frenzy of Despair Over
 Phenomenon. shock h Compared to That of BIase. ing or Severe Thunder-Foreign Mass May Have Been con
 stunned By It's Own

Columbus. Ga. Nov zy.-(speciaL,-- Conflicting statements ss to the visit of massive meteor In Lee county Monday evening. unconfirmed by the discovery of the mas, lead to the be- lief that 1t became intensely heated by impact with the air and wag consum- ed before reaching the earth.
 One of the theories advanced is that the bursting asundcr of the me- teor in mid-air, causing loud detona- ton audible many miles away. croat- cd shock perccptibie for many miles throughout the community.
 Following the unusual occurrence and the general coinciding reports of the meteor's behavior. a thorough securing of the country discIoses nc trace of the spent body.
 There Is no doubt that the farmers in the Eastern part of Lee county ex- perienced the shock. There Is no doubt that something extraordinary occurred around Motts Mill. Mccuf- tough and other points in the valley. The people arc aroused and they are hunting for the meteor. now that they have come to realize that 1t was a meteor. They believe that the great foreign mass Is imbeidsd in tho earth somewher near their homes. But find 1t they cannot.
 Negroes in . Frenzy.
 Superstition has seized upon tho ne- groes. They have seen Judgment from Heaven" and many of them re- tuse to be comforted. Religious serv- Ices arc being held in the hillside ana ths valley churches and much of the labor has ceased for awhile. So far as the course of tho meteor before it burst Is concerned. no Less l than four cardinal directions have been aseribed to it According tb ihe most likely account Of 1t. the meteor first appeared in the north and nov ed south.
 Perhaps the account of the meteor falling most contradictory to the theory that the explosion caused the shock. Is the statement of a man at Mccullough to the effect that the dis- appearance of the illuminated body and the shock were simultaneous. He believes 1t fell somewhere between Mccullough and Cusseta. perhaps about four miles west of Cusseta.
 May Be Near McCuIiau&h
 Summing up the numerous reports of the flash and the shock the location of the body. if 1t is in that section at all, is not far from Mccullough. but il is difficult to estimate by the crude records of the human senses the exact place of It's location.
 The fact that the shocks were mora violent In the vicinities of Mott's mill and Mccullough. added to the state mants ef people belcnd Opeiika and other points within the same radius that no shock ct all was experienced. apparently is significant with regard to tho location of the meteor.
 The confident statements of persons living in the immediate vicinity of 5. IL Powledge's house in the Wacoocisee valley that tho meteor fell between w H. Kimbrough's house and Salem. and the equally confident assertions of oth- CTS that its present spot is between Mccullough and MechanicsviIle. are only samples of the numerous reports of many who were sure" of their bearings.
 Detonation Was severe.
 The strange visit of an inexplicabie object that strewad light as if bumped into the earth Is the sole topic of com versation at the rural postoffices and stores The popular comparison of the sound of the shock Is to a blasting that rattled the windows of houses and out -thunderod any thunder within the ken of provincial gossipers
 No less a. feature of the metcor's visit was ths briliisnee of its iilumi- nation. The bright dash across the sky was easily discerned ahead of the shock
 "fIad we been warned of the ms- teor,s advent" said one resident of the Mcculiough community apologizing for his lack of information. i've would have run it down to it's final resting place. Az 1t was, the shock was nlis- taken by many for q heavy thuuder- storm or a light earthquake"