438 W. M. Foote — Shower of Meteoric Stones, Arizona. 



ence with witnesses of the fall and with finders of the stones. 

 Following are the main facts of the fall and find, as gathered. 

 Between 6.20 and 6.40 p. m. on July 19th, 1912, a large 

 meteor was heard traveling in an easterly direction and pass- 

 ing over Winslow, Hoi brook, and Aztec, points along the 

 Santa Fe Railroad, which here parallels the Rio Pnerco River. 

 It made a very loud noise, lasting for half a minute to one 

 minute.* This noise lias been variously likened by witnesses, 

 to the rumbling of a rapidly driven farm wagon on a rough 

 road, to escaping steam, to distant or long continued thunder 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 1. Location of Fall. Aztec, near Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona. 

 34° 57' N., 110° 2' W. 



or the booming of a cannon. It was heard at Concho, St. 

 Joseph and Woodruff and at Pinedale, some forty miles away. 

 One large explosion was quickly followed by several small 

 ones in rapid succession. Charles Yon Aachen and his son 

 then saw numerous stones fall at Aztec, raising many puffs of 

 dust for a mile or more over the dry sand of the desert, like 

 those produced by bullets or the first drops of rain in a heavy 

 shower. They did not see the stones in the air. Some fell near a 

 building, and one is said to have severed the branch of a tree. 

 The meteor was not seen during its flight, as it was too early in 

 the evening for its luminosity to be visible. Its speed could not 

 be estimated, but it was "terrific" according to one account. Its 



* One observer states that the loud reports were followed by lesser 

 rumblings for four or five minutes. These were the usual echoes. 



