I'm working on my "Reach for the Skies" story and timeline, and would love some ideas for headlines. In June of 1876, a meteorite smashes into the White Mountains of New Hampshire, causing a multi-megaton blast, and leaving a crater a mile wide. The mushroom cloud can be seen for at least a hundred miles or more.
What would the headlines actually say? No one knows what destroyed such a vast area--but everyone knows it happened--the mushroom cloud is visible across the state, at least--if I'm doing it right, quite visible in BOSTON. The cloud is about 16 miles high!