SPOUTING CRATER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 709, 7 January 1910, Page 6

SPOUTING CRATER.

MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE- IN : ; '■'.'■ ■ ■'-~-.:'.. V ;: : TENEKIFFE.':, -e.;;;' s j.v;V v.'; 7 '. The following'.official telegram: was.;re>;-,:. ceived at.'Madrid on -November ';. 23 from' ''•"■ Tene'riffe:, '..■.;■".}"■'■ ■'■-.■ :.-■:■ \ :•>;'.' , "The. chief .crater": continues to 'throw ' but large quantities iof * incandescent' matter -to'a ; height, of over. 2000. feet, . the eruption thus, affording, a magnificent spectacle;- .The How-of lava is increasing in. volume. The ' stream' running down the Santiago Valley has divided into two, each;'.twelvo feet'deejr and of constantly ' increasing breadth. ■'." Though';,the';', progress of the lava is slow, it has already reached ; a point Vwitliiji' about two'- miles-of the ' town. of.^Santiago..."Fortunately? the' land between the lava and; the townt'eontains * j a -number of -'depressions,--.:which it will take time-to fill,:'and the'flow'is conse- ' qucntly not Expected'to'reach tho place lor'another: six. or. seven days, 1 provided ' always that, the .eruption 'does hot increase 'in, intensity. : . ;:\ .'...''.•'.-'... "The. activity of the craters from which \ the' lava flows towards the Santiago Yal- ! ley is'increasing, and: it is added'that the .other'.streams do not seem' to .'be dangerous." •:.'-:',;.' .■.'■'■'.'■■ '- ! :- ' ■'■''. -,'';:- ■ An•-,',unofficial - telegram,, from'" Teneriffe, .'dated ■Noyembef.,:'22, .'.says: "The five craters that have opened are all: situated on Mount Chihyeno,: about 18 miles from Icod.; They are throwing.out stones and sand, which-fall in, a, thick fain for a ' distance of 200 yards, around each. Ashes from'.-' the ■ craters ■ are being carried by the'..wind'as far as Icod,-and scbrias tho size of: almonds-areprojected -a distance of three - and a' half miles from . the craters;' 'When the', eruption. first began there were violent subterranean explosions e'yery few seconds,' and their cessation his done!much:to'reassure':,the inhabitants.' The, eruption' has attracted a number,of tourists, and scientists'"to tho island, among the latter being'Df; Wen- ' ger,,a' German savaut,, who has been up very .close -to.,the : craters...: , : ■:;-,> . "Sir Alfred Jones's, telegram placing his ycssels.at theservice of' any sufferers who inay.be driven from their homes has been very,, gratefully' received;"-'- \ •-.- ■-.■

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