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THE MUSEUM. 



dently this piece which made the sec- 

 ond trail of smoke. 



The sound was noticed throughout 

 a number of counties, both in Kansas 

 and Nebraska, as a thunderous roar 

 which at CHfton, 25 miles from the 

 point of fall, was heard above the 

 noise of a passing railroad train. The 

 meteorite was seen over a much wider 

 area than even its sound covered. Re- 

 ports of observers are given from many 

 places, ranging from Beatrice, Neb., 

 40 miles northeast of the point of fall, 

 to Cedar Junction, Kan., T30 miles 

 southeast, and Halstead, Kan., an 

 equal distance south by west. To 

 those north of the point of fall, it ap- 

 peared as a brilliant object moving 

 southward; while to observers south 

 of that point, its motion seemed north- 

 ward. As Prof. F. H. Snow — who 

 gives a very full account of the circum- 

 stances attending the fall — remarks, 

 these facts indicate that its descent 

 must have been not far from vertical, 

 as is also shown by the nearly perpen- 

 dicular hole, about four feet deep, 

 which it made in the earth where it 

 struck. 



The actual fall was witnessed by 

 Mr. January, as he came out from un- 

 der his wagon, alarmed by the extra- 

 ordinary noise;and also by Miss Guild, 

 a teacher in the Washington County 

 Normal Institute, who was driving on 

 the neighboring road 100 yards dis- 

 tant. Both came to the spot in a very 

 few minutes; and Mr. January began 

 promptly to dig for the object, and 

 with the aid of neighbors reached its 

 upper surface in an hour. But so 

 firmly had it embedded itself in the 

 shaly clay, that it was three hours 

 before it was removed. When reach- 

 ed it was not hot. It had cracked in- 



to two portions, the smaller of which 

 was the 40 ponnd mass which was 

 broken up and carried away by the 

 people of the neighborhood. 



At the moment of its fall, the earth 

 was thrown upward and outward for a 

 distance of eight or ten yards or more. 



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