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almost an exact counterpart of the Hraschina (Agram), Croatia 
iron, the first of the recorded falls. The Agram iron fell in 
two fragments, one weighing about 40* and the other about 9*, 
the combined weight being about equal to that of the Johnson 
County iron. 
This mass fell about six miles east of Cabin Creek, John- 
son Co., Arkansas, in longitude 93° 17’ W. of: ‘Greenwich, 
latitude 35° 24’ North, within seventy-five yards of the house 
of Christopher C. Shandy. Mrs. Shandy states that about 
three o’clock on the afternoon of the 27th of March, 1886, 
while in her house she heard a very loud report, which caused 
the dishes in the closet to rattle and which she described 
as louder than any thunder she had ever heard. At first she 
thought it was caused by a bombshell, and ran out of the house 
in time to see the limbs fall from the tops of a tall pine tree, 
which, she says, stands about 75 yards from her dwelling. She 
did not investigate the matter until her husband came home 
about six o’clock in the evening, when in company with John 
R. Norton, their hired man, they went out. to find the cause of 
the noise that had so startled Mrs. Shandy. They discovered 
that a large hole had been made in the ground by some falling 
object, and that the fresh dirt had been thrown up toa 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 similar to 
that described in the case of the Mazapil iron. The iron had 
buried itself ih 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 
the 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 R. Norton. Mr. Shandy at first supposed 
that their find was platinum, then silver, and he finally learned. 
what it really was and sold it. Mrs. India Ford, Dr. W. 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 river. 
Mr. B. Caraway states that he heard two loud reports at 
Alma, Crawford Co., at 8 o’clock on March 27th, 1886. The 
