As it was a cloudy winter night, most people were likely indoors and didnt see anything.
Painting by artist Gustav Hahn who was fortunate enough to witness the event first hand.
They all traversed the same path and were headed for the same point in the south-eastern sky.
Some witnesses compared the spectacle to a fleet of airships, or battleships attended by cruisers and destroyers.
Others thought they resembled a brilliantly lighted passenger train.
Most naked-eye observers Chant spoke to reported varying number of meteor bodies.
Some observers reported a dozen or fewer objects, while others claimed to have seen hundreds or even thousands.
According to him there were about ten groups in all and each group consisted between twenty to forty meteors.
The entire procession took about 3.3 minutes to traverse the sky.
The meteor train was also visible over an unprecedented distance.
Denning wondered whether there were sailors in the Atlantic Ocean who might have witnessed the same spectacle.
The trajectory of the meteor procession.
The red dots mark observed locations of the Great Meteor Procession of 1913.
In the case of the meteor procession of 1913, this radiant was absent.
Others, likened them to great battleships attended by cruisers and destroyers.
While travelling through the atmosphere it produced a bright daylight fireball.
Another procession was observed in 1876.
