KILLED BY A METEOR.
As David Meisenthales, the wellknown stockman of Whitestone township, was driving his cows to the barn about daylight on the 13th Jan., he was struck by an aerolite and instantly killed. It appears as if the meteor had come from a direction little west of south, and fell from an angle of about sixty degrees, for it passed through a maple tree cutting the limbs as clean as if it had been a cannon ball, and then struck him apparently on or under the shoulder, passing through him obliquely from below the right shoulder to above the left hip, and buried itself about two feet in the soft black ground. The poor man’s head and legs are injured, but the greater part of his body seems to have been crushed into the earth beneath the terrific aerolite, winch is about the size of a common patent bucket, and apparently of a rough, round shape. It appears to be formed of what is called iron pyrites.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1085, 23 March 1880, Page 3
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