Show BRILIANT METEOR OUTSHINES THE MOON A dazzling meteor astonished the ole eyes 0 of both new yorkers and new jr the eveni evening ing ot 01 october an 0 observer server on river all ide drive N Y thus describes it it was its terribly hig biff and it looked booket just like ilka a skyrocket sky rocket it came do down n in a waving path and then burst burat into it Us little blue flame it frightened me coming front fronk the enst east it was a red streak and as it seemed to ret get just til t the river it burst into the most enormous great big blue flame you ever saw it was ni as a ball tit of blue light and then I 1 could see little red sparks sly my electric lights wore woke aull and tile the ev e lit up all three front rooms with it a blue light I 1 thought it fell into the Hudson river i 1 as s described by kye eye witness in new sersey jersey 11 windows bottled iId e in their houses and a nol dolse lik e a thunderclap was tile night was momentarily ablaze abelaye with a bluish light sone thought a powder works had gone eone up another N il J party reported 1 I wag waa most impressed hy by its silence it was so close I 1 could see a red spark of fire following a huge white ball that looked like an electric lc 1 lusht I ht bull bulb only ever so BO much bigger then it burst and sent bent a shower of sparks in every direction apparently over montclair it the earth titled a lightning bolt another said it divined the ille moon and made it look like a candle candid |