Show THE SEVENTY TON ITE FALLING meteorites have been quite numerous 0 of late one of the most moat recent among these eccentric visitors descended and struck the airth earth near macadams junction new brunswick on wednesday september it had bad a terrorizing effect upon some parties who were in the vicinity at the time the following interesting interest ln details were embodied in a dispatch dated september lath from fredericton N NB B nothing has created ment meni throughout the province as the fall of the meteor wednesday evening at macadams junction the junction is sixty miles south of here and a party of gentlemen who went thursday to investigate the story of its fall returned last evening and give additional information directly to the north of macadams about half a mile away to is mount prospect upon the toot of which upon some laud land belonging to the brunswick road used for storing wood fuel fell the five hundred feet away from the spot are situated the five dwellings of a railroad yardmaster his two assistants and two farmers peter dugan and pierre lamont lament these bese awu men were at thome borne on wednesday sight night the farmer having called on his bis neigh to talk about some live stock when a sight occurred that temporarily deprived deprive d them of t leir senses lamont had just looked at his bis watch and reported it was when both were startled by a peculiar bright brig it light that lit up the entire pl place ac e it rapidly grew denser and in made ad e the manases landscape pe for miles around as plain as day the men glanced up and hanging what seemed immediately above their heads was a bright bau ball of fir n movin moving from ro the est it was advancing ra rapidly adly and soon a sharp his sing bonn sound was heard beard rapidly deepening into a ro roar ar like a moving train which in a few seconds became deafening the mass was rapidly revolving living off thousands of sparks sparke like molten iron and the heat beat was intense in sheer fright both men fell to the ground while with a crash that jarred ar abe t he dishes from the table indoors ho h O id t abe h e mass struck the earth immediately me te I 1 y in front of them the heat was blis blistering t ering and set fire are to and destroyed in a few moments the pied hut but of a woodchopper wood chopper that stood twenty feet away the building had only been deserted a fe w days and and had bad anyone been in it he could never have escaped it burled itself nearly out of sight bat kept MIO a glowing re red for some ho hours airs and is still at 8 smoking 1 q hot ot and looks like a piece of b brown n sa sandstone and must weigh at least alevy seventy t tons A piece broken off today to day hurriedly polished olisher 0 and tested with acids shows its s metallic nature so 80 hot was it that a pile of rocks some twenty feet away were partially fused the spot pot is being visited by thousands who are trying to get a souvenir but it to is too hot the railroad company acting under instructions from ottawa has placed laced 1 a guard over it to preserve re 0 it for for scientific purposes vt it I 1 is s nearly pear shape th elargest end b being a buried out of sight |