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Paper: THE CHARLESTON DAILY MAILCity: CHARLESTON, WVDate: Wednesday, May 31, 1922From the front page: METEOR, LANDING NEAR BY, PLAINLY VISIBLE TO RESIDENTS OF THE CITY Giant Cinder, Falling From Sky, Travels at Terrific Rate and Illuminates, Reports Say A meteor, traveling at terrific speed, as meteors have a way of travelig, passed in an easterly direction of Charleston about 8 o'clock last night and is believed by many who saw it to have buried itself in the earth somewhere in Fayette or Raleigh counties. It was seen by persons in Charlestons and Kanawha, Logan, Boone and Fayette counties. A great light, visible for miles, flashed on as the meteor whizzed through the air, and then was extinguished. It looked like the flash from a terrific explosion and caused hundreds of persons last night to believe that a mine had blown up. Many who saw it said that their thoughts of a mine explosion were confirmed by a loud noise. Reports from many persons in this and neighboring counties who witniessed the aeriel spectacle were recieved today by E. F. Hill, division information manager of the Chesapeake and Potomac telephone company. , Robert Adkins, an employee of the telephone company at Madison, saw the meteor pass over Madison. It was very high and going in n easterly direction. Shortly after it was out of sight a noise was heard in Madison, sounding like a mine explosion. A Mr. Walsh at Kayford saw it and said that it was accompanied by a loud noise. A telephone operator at Carbon reported that the meteor appeared very high from that place and that it apparently just went on out of sight in an easterly direction. A Mr. Fitzwater, of the Indian Run Colllery company at Kimberly, on Armstrong Creek, reported that the meteor was both seen and heard there. It was very high and still headed in an easternly direction. HEARD BY MANY OTHERS Denvil Reed, an employee of the telephone company at Thurmond, saw the meteor about 8:50 o'clock. It seemed to be a flash and lasted only about a minute. The houses in Thurmond were jarred and people thought it was a mine explosion, Mr. Reed said. Windows were rattled in Layland, a Mr. Kessler, of that place, said People of Layland both saw and heard the meteor, but they thought it was a mine explosion, Mr. Kessler said. The Virginian power company at Cabin Creek reported that its man at Scarbro saw and heard it, but he did not know its direction. A telephone operator at Montgomery. walking near Crescent, saw a very bright light which seemed to be a more of a flash. The meteor seemed to be about two feet wide and six or eight feet long. (Continued on Page Eleven). Mark Note: From Page Eleven METEOR, LANDING NEAR BY, PLAINLY VISIBLE TO RESIDENTS OF THE CITY (Continued From Page One) accourding to a Mr. Crasdall at Gauley Bridge. It was traveling north when he saw it. Mr. Hensley of Babcock co & J company, at Cliff Top, about 12 miles from Layland, reported that the meteor was seen at Cliff Top and that vibrations were felt. It seemed to have been south of Cliff Top toward Layland, he said. Mr. Bevins of the Loup Creek colllery company saw the meteor pass over Deepwater about 8:40 o'clock at an angle of 45 degrees due north. Shortly after he heard a rumbling sound similar to thunder. The editor of the Raleigh Register said the meteor was heard and seen in Beckley. It was in a weesterly direction and was on the order of a bright flash of lightning. Everybody in Beckley was talking of it this morning. Reports from Hinton, Rainelle, Ansted. Richwood and Swiss are that the meteor was not seen nor heard there. State police received word of the "explosion" last night, but they have not located the meteor. |
