Show I 1 I I BIG METEOR DROPPED People of Ogden Last Night Wit Witnessed W t a Rare and Bril Brilliant flint Spectacle Special BaI to The TIle Herald Ogden on March iLA IA large targe meteor fell feU feUt tonight t Jut Just of Illuminating Illuminating the whole heavens for tor the anace maca of half a minute or more and Into fragments nta just Jut before tk t the earth The reflection of the aerial body was seen by b quite a number of people But probably the best beat view was wu obtained by b bJ byJ J J Smythe the tbt electrician who re in resides reald inside sides side ald at t Ml street Mr r Smith gave P the th following account of 0 the phenomenon to The Herald H 1 I 1 had bad just Juat stepped at out into my back backyard backyard yard yul for tor a bucket buk t of ot coal and an S Immedi Immediately immediately I t noticed a 11 strange brilliant bluish blulah blu reflection on toe mountains and houses i and the ground The Th s trance light seemed almost It to put the arc rc lights ht into Ic and nd then I caught au bt sight of the body Itself falling at a terrific rate of speed peed s through th b the atmosphere It seemed I about as large targe e aa as a football and ap appeared peered to be a body of 01 fire fir emitting it its Ita weird bluish and lind orange light It had bad a atall tail tall of about eighteen inches I Juat Just be before before fore lore reaching the ground around it appeared to burst bunt scattering the flaming mass into hundreds of fragments freemen I would judge Jud e that the meteor struck the earth a little littleto to the lb north and a little to the tbt west of 01 the power house hou of the Ith Light A APo Power Po company ny but in the tM momentary I glance that tt I bad of It It I could not judge ju accurately 1 I n saw a more DINt mag sight bt in my life than titan what I be Ix beheld beheld held beld daring durin dort those brief seconds I saw IIa W one meteor in California about twenty tw ty five fin years year ago and aDd while bile I had bad a much h longer view of or It than Utan of this thi it wa wu not hot nearly so brilliant Aa As soon BOOn aa as I tot got back backI into the tile house hO tonight ht I 1 looked at my y yI watch It waa W 10 1025 3 |