Show SPAINS AEROLITE ECENTLV TELL IN TUB VICINITY VICINI-TY OP MAOIIIO The nlnroll hnprlslen etsniurths llllee II a Iahll Dam lIon It Im from 5 sear sky tem lsn1ean teehtie V + UK Spanish newspapers news-papers that ban reached this country coun-try In the last mall are full of details of the burstlnn of A thn hit aerolite over Madrid receW t ly The phenome mm thit TO R Mall y frlchtpned Madrid and other places not fur from HIP capital Is not wi YIn ipconumtn but It Is l seldom nb rMil on m ntnrtllng n stole The conciiaclon tom the pxploslnn was so lolent thnt every liulldliiK In Madrid wa shaken men windows wore broken and a Iw luhl BtriiPlnrca were pelM nllli the rtiiund The terror liisnirad by the pfcurrmr parllcularl among the he l norant and sus M all l Imowa all the Rater lifraiis the tent was of rourrc nncxpwtpil and It rain on n lay I of beauty when all nature wn lirlqlit and 1 Rlailnoinc The Ky was ctoudlns the mornlnt sup wan radiant the shops had put on heir freshest Monday ninrnltiK sir and 1111 trivia wrrp Just IwnltmlKK 1 I lo ho lhron Rand el1 with shopper imlnlrlans R-and trnlllc when the deafening Miind of II lie explosion KID hoard ThoM who happened In IH > lonklim at HIP sky say that at the InMant lit the rxploslnu there nasn IM glati of bllndltiR light thn I for Mir moment oiitnhont the nun and then them Instantly silleoreti Ht ihe plats where the dlsliirhanro Drill Innled what looked llle iv cloud of nhllc and hlulili lint bordered with ml which moral rAIII Rill tremendous tale lmliiK behind n Ihln Irnlu that may save been dint particles from the meteor Illumined hv she sun Tho largest shall shot frnm modern Rue and hiirstlnK In midair could not lime produced n sound approaching Bill n n I UK detonation of thin csploilon Many people did not roconilze Us origin orig-in In Ihc nlr and thought come Icrrlblo IIIII t II t t calamity I had occurred at the surface The enormous energy uf the dlilurh nnrc pnibibly rqualird at beast thill of a Inrgc ponder mngatlno which had blown up for the whole mill 1 seemed to be shaken as by an earthquake and the agitation of tits ntnnnplKre wn shown by thin rapid fall and rlrc of tho barometer Wo ma > Imagine with wlat brilliancy bril-liancy this ncrnllto mint halo shone In Iho sous Ill sky when WI know that It was s lilblo over at least threefdurttn of Kpnln as It shot through Ills air abovo blue peninsula wllh n speed several sev-eral limes as great nn that of this awlft fat war projectile Tho inountalncvri among tho 1fences saw It and won < dcrcd len at Irnnrea famous waterIng water-Ing place Illarrlti on the edge of Spain the streak of light athwart tho sky wan obscrxd Ro It was observed from the Atlantic to blue Mediterranean for the people on Ibo en it cones nt Valencia Valen-cia saw It and In Iho south It wu noticed aa fur aa the southern tier of provinces Nearly nil flpaln war rented rent-ed to n irotechnlc dltplay on that morning Sorno damnie was done also at places nlher than Madrid for the big redhot atone partly disintegrated on Its way and Incandescent fragments that show crud down upon the town of Ixigrono 135 miles northeast of tho capital lOt two buildings oi lire and at Ilorgoi 120 miles 1 north ol Madrid I I three fragments frag-ments from the main body started off as meteors on their nun account and tell among thin houses Older pieces of the Krn > lili stuns thnt were HIIIIK off near Madrid were picked up while still hot Bo HO seo that this celestial lsltor after striking out atmosphere scat Hied fragments along Us way It Is I quite probable that the main body paiaed completely over Hpnln and fell Into the McdltcrrnniAH It nreins likely that It crossed hiss Bpanlih penlntult In less 1 than hull n minute for these lltlli objects travel with tremendous velocity 1iobaul many of Iho fragments frag-ments that urokn off flout thus itonn traveled lilting with It 1 III parnlltl counea but a few of tlvni dropped to thr ground The awry of Its lllght la cry much hike that of tho fuiamu tuttcorltli shires pastOKo over about half of our continent from west to cut was ob ccrtod In Iec niLer 1670 It first became be-came vlslblo In the western part of the Indian Territory and It pained over all the Intorvoulnc etatci unjll It wan last obsonvd In Ibis state of Now York andIt traversed this vast distance In about two minutes The height ahoy tho earth lit which It 1 was lint obcirved Is I believed to bavo Lon over sixty miles and when over central cen-tral New York It Is I thought to have been over thirty miles hlgb Many explosions stems heard along Its path and many fragments that wtru broken off traveled along In Its train as a flock ot smaller meteors and a few of them fell lo tho ground An Indiana former heard the dull thud with which one of them struck tho ground near his housr and ho found the stono In the morning and It was declared to ho undoubtedly un-doubtedly a part of tho meteorite In Ibo sumo way explosions were heard In various cities as thin Hnunlih visitor flitted along and as In Ibo case of our aerolite these explosions were followed b > detonations each a little low potent than Its predecessor and each a genuine genu-ine echo |