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ing. She did not investigate the matter until her husband came 

 home about six o'clock in the evening, when in company Avitli 

 John K. Norton, their hired man, they went out to find the 

 cause of the noise that had so startled Mrs. Shandy. They dis- 

 covered that a large hole had been made in the ground by some 

 falling object, and that the fresh earth had been thrown up to a 

 height of thirty feet on the surrounding saplings and trees. 

 They dug down, and a steam or exhalation arose, which on a 

 dark night might perhaps have produced a phosphorescence sim- 

 ilar to that described in the case of the Mazapil iron. The iron 

 had buried itself in the ground to the depth of three feet, and 

 the earth around it to the thickness of one inch seemed to be 

 burned. 



The ground was still warm when the iron was taken out, and 

 thp iron itself was as hot as the men could well handle. The 

 weather had been quite cloudy all day, but no rain fell until 

 night. These facts are from the affidavits of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Shandy and John E. Norton. Mr. Shandy at first supposed that 

 their find was j)latinum, then silver, and he finally learned what 

 it really was and sold it. Mrs. India Ford, Dr. \Y. J. Bleck, 

 Mr. S. A. Wright, Constable, and Mr. L. Wright, Chief of 

 Police, also heard the report caused by the fall. 



The noise was heard 75 miles away and was likened to a loud 

 report followed by a hissing sound as if hot metal had come in 

 contact with water. It caused a general alarm among the people, 

 and teams of horses twenty-five miles distant, becoming fright- 

 ened, broke loose and ran away, and in Webb City, Franklin 

 Co., on the south side of the Arkansas river, a number of bells 

 kept on sale in a store, are said to have been caused to tinkle. 

 Cabin Creek is on the north side of the Arkansas Eiver. 



Mr. B. Caraway, Avho visited the spot for me, informs me that 

 the pine tree through which the meteorite fell is 107 feet high, and 

 that the distance from the foot of the tree to the centre of the hole 

 made by the mass is 22 feet 3 inches. The limbs on the west 

 side of the tree are broken, and the meteorite lay in the hole 

 with the flat side down. The hole was 75 yards from the house. 



Professor H. A. Newton, who has kindly interested himself in 

 this matter, says that the data furnished indicate that the mass 



