Reminiscence of the Great Meteor Shower of 1833

The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · November 27, 1879

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 22

Reminiscence of the Great Meteor Shower of 1833

In the Detroit Evening News of Nov. 13 we find the following interesting reminiscence of the great star-shower of 1833:—

Mr. John Grousel, in a pleasant little note to the News, brings up a reminiscence of the famous fall of meteors in 1833, just 46 years ago to-night. He says he was then at work on a farm on Long Island, just one mile from the present center of Brooklyn, N. Y., and on going out to hitch up his horses, at about 3 A. M., preparatory to taking a load of vegetables to the New York market, he found the whole visible portion of the heavens illuminated by the fall of thousands of meteors. So numerous were they that the sky appeared as if ablaze with red, like the red of the rainbow. He says he can form no just mental comparison of what it did resemble, but it seemed to him like a storm of fiery snow. He aroused the family of his employer, and they all watched it long and with feelings of awe. His employer, Mr. Skillman, was a God-fearing man, and at once summoned the family to prayers.