Strange Sight Was In The Skies

F.E. Hoyt, of Penn Yan., N.Y., who has been spending some time with friends in this vicinity, reports a strange phenomenon which was seen from Grass Lake Monday morning. A number of persons had gathered at the Michigan Central depot to take the early train east - about 4:25 o'clock - when their attention was attracted by a luminous body in the heavens moving from south to north across the horizon. The starry visitor had the appearance of a comet, the head or nucleus being pear-shaped and emitting a brilliant white light. The body moved slowly and left in its wake a stream of sparks or rather a tail which lasted for about twenty minutes after the passage of the ball.

Several train men on a freight bound west also report seeing the same phenomena and say that it apparently split in two parts after passing to the north of the train and one of the pices fell to earth while the other passed on.