DEAD FOREST

Evening Star, Issue 20137, 30 March 1929, Page 7

DEAD FOREST

METEORITE SMASHES 11,000 MILES Professor Kulik. a Russian scientist, set out last year at the head of a small expedition to find out it there was any truth in the reports which were made twenty years ago about the tall of a huge meteorite somewhere in Siberia. Nothing remained of the rumour as the years passed except a story among the tribes inhabiting Siberia, ot the visit ot the “ Cod of Thunder. ’’ Now, alter months ot hardship, Prolessor Kulik has returned to Moscow alter discovering the devastated area. Ho found a. “dead forest’’—-hun-dreds of miles of dead, charred trees, the earth fantastically bruised, ami giant trees in heaps like so much straw. The meteorite, according to the .scientist’s estimate, is the largest to have struck the earth in the memory of mankind. It wiped out all life over an area of 11,000 square miles, and the impact, he said, must have been felt for hundreds of miles around. Luckily it fell in a wilderness, for had it struck London, Paris, New York, or any el the world’s thicklypopulated cities.all life for hundreds of miles round would haavo been obliterated.