Paper: Coshocton Tribune City: Coshocton, Ohio Date: Wednesday, July 29, 1925 Page: 3
SIOUX CITY, Ia., July 23 - Local scientific circles are greatly interested in the reports of falling meteors at Ponca, Neb., and at Hot Springs, South Dakota. Twice within the last six-months a meteor has fallen near the Dennis O'Flaherty home, three and one-half miles west of Ponca. The latest heavenly visitor was about ten inches in diameter and reached the O'Flaherty home abuot ten o'clock at night. Mr. and Mrs. O'Flaherty were awakened by a loud hissing noise and saw a ball of fire strike an electric light wire and fall to the ground, where it burned for some time. The electric wire fell across the barbed wire fences and electrocuted two steers that were standing by the fence. The electric current followed the barbed wire to the a gate post and scorched it where ti have already been scorched by a meteor that fell near the post six months before
TOO HOT TO HANDLE
The O'Flahertys watched the fireball for several hours. At 6 o'clock the next afternoon Mr. O'Flaherty and several of his neighbors dug up parts of the meteor and found it still too hot to handle Near Hot Springs A. A. Hardin was driving along the highway when a bright, comet-like flame swept over the sky. He saw a brilliant red fire ball fall in a pasture. Hardin left his car, climbed the fence and ran to the spot where he saw the fire ball land. A colu,m of smoke was rising from the gass. He discovered the smoke was emanating from a red hot object, smaller than a baseball - a meteor. The meteor had torn a large hole in the ground. Later when the meteor cooled the metal mass was weighed and found to be exactly two pounds heavy. Mark note: I could find no other reference to these possible meteorite falls Please visit, www.MeteoriteArticles.com, a free on-line archive of meteor and meteorite articles. |
