[JOHNSTON-ELLSWORTH] ANNAHEIM METEORITE 75 



The day was cold and calm; the sun was shining brightly and 

 there appeared from the north-west a kind of bright cloud — apparently 

 about 50 feet in length — -which faded away to the south-eastward 

 about 4 or 5 minutes afterward. 



Mr. Haas pictured the cloud as having a serpentine aspect with 

 a broad expansion near the forward end. 



(9) Mr. Wishart H. Poukse, writing from Beauchamp on March 

 14, 1917, stated that he was on the south-east quarter of section 4, 

 township 39, range 20, west of 2nd meridian at the time of the occur- 

 rence under consideration. He first heard a noise like that of a high 

 wind and then a report and on looking upward noticed clouds of 

 smoke, close together at first, but soon trailing out in long strings, 

 rapidly changing form and gradually disappearing without marked 

 change in general position. The cloud appeared to be somewhat 

 north of a point directly overhead and to him appeared to have come 

 from the south. Animals seemingly were undisturbed by the occur- 

 rence. 



(10) Mr. William Huiras and Mr. Paul Lackmuth were together 

 on the the former's farm at the time. The former describes the 

 phenomena as a roaring sound accompanied by intermittent detona- 

 tions lasting 2 or 3 minutes. He saw nothing but a cloud of smoke 

 in the air. Mr. Lackmuth likens the sound to a boiler explosion ; the 

 smoke, he says, was visible for about half-an-hour. 



The item in St. Peter's Bote of January 29, 1914, a free translation 

 of a part of which has been kindly furnished by Reverend Dominic 

 Hofmann of Annaheim runs as follows: " In the afternoon of January 

 21, 1914, a peculiar phenomenon was witnessed by the people of St. 

 Peter's Colony. Not only the people of Muenster, but also those 

 about Humboldt, Fulda, Dead Moose Lake, Pilger, Bruno and Dana, 

 saw in the heavens a smoking cloud which was moving with great 

 noise. Some even saw sparks issuing from it and heard detonations. 

 The noise was so great that even horses shied." 



Although the proof can never be absolute that there is a direct 

 connection between the phenomena observed over the country 

 extending 30 miles or more westward from Annaheim on the 21st 

 January, 1914, and the meteorite discovered by Mr. Wm. Huiras on 

 his farm on section 32, township 39, range 20, west of the 2nd meridian, 

 July 30, 1916, there is certainly much of a circumstantial nature to 

 lead one to this conclusion. 



The meteorite had quite clearly not lain long where it was found ; 

 it had evidently been cushioned against immediate impact with the 

 soil at the time of its fall ; this could only happen through its descend- 



