Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1902 — A Gigantic Meteorite. [ARTICLE]

A Gigantic Meteorite.

Prof. Henry A. Ward has announced the discovery of a great meteorite in Western Mexico. The stone weighs fifty tons; It is thirteen feet one Inch in length and lay buried by the terrific force of Its own momentum nearly twenty feet In the earth. Small portions of the meteorite were broken off; the remainder was left Intact for the time being. The cost of transporting the stone to the sea coast, seventy-one miles, would haie been more than $50,000.