MOUNT ETNA.
A VIOLENT ERUPTION. (JBjr "»bl«—Prts* Awociilion—Copyright.) (AuitrnUan and K.Z. Ca.bl« A«aooi»tion.) ROME, March 29. Mount Etna is in violent eruption. Lava is flowing from all sides of the v crater. Villagers are fleeing. There ihave been. several earthquakes in the Palermo and Messina districts lately. [Mount Etna, in the north-east of Sicily, within a short distance of Catania, rises 10,755 feet above sea level. About 80 eruptions of Etna are recorded. In 1169 the greater part of Catania was destroyed. An eruption in 1792 continued for a whole year, and ihe streams of lava which flowed from the mountain were often 30 feet high while in their fluid state. During an eruption in 1532 many small craters opened in tihe aides of the mountain, from which, in the midst of violont ex- . plosions and tremendous discharges of ashes and cinders, issued a stream of lava, 18 miles in length, on© mile broad, and 30 feet high. An eruption in 166SJ hurled lava into Catania, a part of which it destroyed. In 1693 an eruption and accompanying earthquako cost tho lives of 60,1100 people.]
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17418, 31 March 1922, Page 7
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185MOUNT ETNA. Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17418, 31 March 1922, Page 7
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