For some reason, the town chosen was not Concord, but Monroe (Midland was not yet a town). Some persons at a distance, saw a fiery elongated body, flaming like iron at a white heat, following a denser and darker ball of fire, passing from West to East."Īccording to the practice of the day, the meteorite was named after a nearby town. By the side of a pointed stick, they felt the rock, which had buried itself just beneath the surface of the earth - from which it was taken with care - leaving the impression of its outlines very distinctly in a white clay sub soil.The explosions and noise of the fall caused much alarm to women and men, dogs and horses. They could not see the falling body, but sighted the sound of the heavy mass by a tall pine tree, in a direction nearly East, where it was heard to fall with a dull jar of the ground.he next morning, they discovered.a pine log lying upon the ground freshly splintered and wounded upon one side. "heard a whizzing noise directly overhead, and a sound like that which might be produced by a large anvil passing over them, while a quantity of small bodies were cutting the air, with a rattling like platoon firing. The newspaper described the meteorite as "a large mass of dark, bluish, gritty, metallic rock, weighing 19-1/2 lbs." The meteorite was seen and heard as far away as 250 miles north and south of the Cabarrus area, and it landed in a wooded area about 300 yards from the spot where Hiram Bost stood talking with a neighbor in Midland. The most detailed account of the event finally appeared in the Charlotte Journal on Friday, December 14. The first Journal article appeared on Friday, November 2, reporting that Charlotteans "heard a report like a clap of thunder and then a rolling like its distant reverberations." A November 9 article confirmed that a meteorite, weighing about 19 pounds, struck in Cabarrus County. Because there are no surviving Cabarrus county newspapers from 1849, the Charlotte Journal provides the story. On Wednesday afternoon, October 31, 1849, a meteor fell through the Cabarrus sky, landing on Hiram Bost's land in Township 10, near what is now Midland. Wells' Halloween radio broadcast "War of the Worlds" panicked the nation, Cabarrus County experienced its own startling extraterrestrial visit. Cabarrus Citizens Spooked by Halloween Meteor