[johxstox-ellsworth] ANNAHEIM METEORITE 73 



Dana, Bruno, Fulda, Middle Lake, Pilger, Dead Moose Lake, Hum- 

 boldt, Muenster, Annaheim, and also at Mr. Huiras's farm on which 

 the Annaheim meteorite was found. The geographic relations of 

 these points may be clearly understood by reference to the diagram. 



(1) Mr. J. Lapinski states in a letter dated at Leofeld, March 8, 

 1917, that on the day mentioned he heard a loud noise resembling 

 thunder, but much more intense, coming from the north-west and 

 travelling toward the south-east. Horses, cattle, sheep ?nd pigs were 

 startled by it and the house dog manifested much uneasiness. Mr. 

 Lapinski did not see anything to account for the disturbance. Leofeld 

 lies about 25 miles from the Huiras farm on a line running a little to 

 the north of west. 



(2) Mr. E. Ludwig, whose farm is situated on the north-east 

 quarter of section 4, township 39, range 24, west of the 2nd meridian 

 about 7 miles in a north-easterly direction from Bruno or about 

 4 miles west of Fulda, states in a letter dated March 2, 1917, that he 

 Avas standing about 20 yards from his house and that he first noticed 

 a ball of fire disappearing to the eastward and leaving in its trail a 

 cloud of smoke which remained visible for about half-an-hour. The 

 apparition was followed by a noise like thunder, but he was not 

 favourably situated for observing the effect of this upon animals. 



(3) At Middle Lake, Rev. Peter Windschiegel is authority for 

 the statement that the meteor seemed to pass directly over the heads 

 of the people and that it was travelling in a south-easterly direction. 

 It will be noted by reference to the map that the Huiras farm lies 

 about 18 miles almost directly south-east from this point. 



(4) Mr. Pius Mutter, writing from Pilger, March 17, 1917, makes 

 the following statement: "I was in my dwelling on N.E. 6-40-22 W. 

 of 2nd at the time looking south the winter corral. With the approach 

 of the sound which was like distant thunder the cattle roused and 

 with tails in the air went helter skelter around the stack and then 

 lined up along the east side of the corral staring to the eastward in the 

 direction in which the rumbling seemed to me to have died away. 



"Stepping outdoors I saw high above the faint haze in the air a 

 dark wide line of varying density undulating through the haze, and 

 corresponding in position with that in which the sounds appeared to 

 have originated. I judge the meteor to have passed from west to 

 east in an angle of about 10 or 12 degrees north of the vertical." 



(5) Mr. F. H. Strueby, writing from Dead Moose Lake on March 

 28, 1917, said that he was sitting in his house when the first sound 

 was heard ; to him this resembled the humming or roaring of a chim- 

 ney; just then his daughter came running into the house saying that 



