SHOWER OF METEORS CAUSES PANIC
BRILLIANT FIRE BALLS IN NEWFOUNDLAND.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) St. John’s (Newfoundland), Oct. 19.
An investigation : of reports that aeroplanes on fire were falling into Fortune Bay and Trinity Bay this afternoon disclosed a shower of meteors over the island. The illuminations were so brilliant that even at mid-day people rushed to windows in a panic in one small settlement, believing that the end of the world had come and gravely alarmed. A huge ball of fire, with a trail of white smoke, fell into Fortune Bay, setting fire to a fisherman’s boat.
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Southland Times, Issue 23026, 21 October 1936, Page 5
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