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appeared to be a trail of "smoke or steam" in the line of flight. 

 Several specimens were found by his daughters, Misses Emma and 

 Irene Kern, and contributed by them to the collection of the 

 University of Minnesota. 



Mrs. Nell F. Rodenbour, postmistress at Lemmon, South 

 Dakota, writing February 25, 1919, describes the fall as follows: 



I saw this meteorite myself and can only describe it thus: At about 11 

 o'clock at night we heard a dull roar like thunder, and we all ran out of the 

 house to see, and there appeared a bright flash of light across the whole sky. 

 It fell to the northwest, more north, and left a tail of light which remained 

 for fully fifteen minutes. 



Lemmon is about 45 miles south and 8 miles east of the place 

 where most of the meteorite fell. 



Mr. N. R. St. Marie, of Hettinger, North Dakota, wrote on 

 February 27 as follows: 



The writer was lucky enough to get an almost perfect view of the meteo- 

 rite. I was seated in an auto sky-gazing, when it attracted my attention 

 as a shooting star. In a moment I saw that it was out of ordinary. Starting 

 from very high it fell rapidly earthward, a little to the east of north, about 

 10 or 15 degrees, I judged. As it came down it illuminated the landscape 

 to almost the brilliancy of sunlight, but the light was first of a green and later 

 of a yellow hue. A faint whistling was discernable to part of our party; 

 others, however, said they didn't notice any sound. 



I was 65 miles south and 15 miles west of Hettinger at the time. 



In answer to further inquiry, on March i, 1919, Mr. St. Marie 

 added : 



I first noticed it very high in the heavens giving the appearance of being 

 nearly over me; as it approached the earth it appeared more and more to 

 the northeast. 



This observer was 100 miles south and 30 miles west of the locality 

 of the fall at the time. 



Mr. Lewis Loran, Section t,t,, Township 137, Range 92, found 

 .several specimens of the fall, and was a witness of the phenomena. 

 On December 12, 19 18, he wrote the following detailed descrip- 

 tion of the fall: 



It was June 30, at 10 p.m.; my wife and I were in my yard, and I looked 

 at the sky and I discovered the meteor. It was as large to me as about two 



