New York Time
New York City, New York
Thursday, April 19, 1906
Page: 10
FOUND METEOR FRAGMENT
Cemetery Workman Digs Up One Buried for Twelve Years
Special to The New York Times
RAHWAY, N.J., April 18. - John Godfray, in excavating
for a monument today in Hazlewood Cemetery, dug up a meteor fragment weighing
25 pounds. It seemed to be composed of fused minerals, glass, stone and
steel. There is a mixture of vari-colored stones intermingled through the
otherwise gray mass.
Tweleve years ago Keron Kiernan, keeper of the cemetary,
while at work one afternoon, heard a whistle, like escaping steam, coming
through the clouds overhead. Then came a bright light, an oder of sulpher
filled the air, and about fifty feet from where he stood a missile buried
itself in the ground scorching the grass about and melting the gravel where
it fell. The opening showed the object to have buried twelve feet deep.
Since then it has gradually worked to the surface.
