Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — GLARING LIGHT WAS SEEN. [ARTICLE]

GLARING LIGHT WAS SEEN.

That a meteor of tremendous size plunged into Lake Michigan Wednesday night, causing earth tremors felt in a dozen Michigan cities and sending a pillar ,pf-~f lame hundreds of feet into the air, which was visible for a radius of many miles, is generally accepted as the explanation of the earth shock and fjaming skyward light, which at first were thought to have been caused by a terrific explosion of some southern Michigan or northern Indiana industrial plant. The flames were observed in this locality by a number of persons who were on their way from Rensselaer to Pleasant Ridge to bring passengers to this city who were on the train at Pleasant Ridge which was being held up on account of two freight cars being off the track. The writer was making the trip with Dr. Leighly and son, of DeMotte, and the flash was noted and commented upon at the time. , From reports from various Michigan, Indiana and Illinois cities, where the blinding flare was visible, it appeared the center of the disturbance was near the lower end of Lake Michigan. Coast guards at Grand Haven, Mich., were firm in -their asserti on that _ theyhad —wjt> nessed the descent of a . -heavenly, body anxf “credence ’is given their story by the absence of the report of any industrial disaster. Residents of Battle Creek, Kalafiiazoo, Grand Haven and other western Michigan cities and Indiana cities, including South Bend, left their homes in fear of an earthquake. It is reported that the rumblings were heard as far as South Bend and Laporte and that the flash of light was seen in Chicago.