VOLCANO IN HEAVY ERUPTION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1934, 17 December 1913, Page 7

VOLCANO IN HEAVY ERUPTION

it PERILOUS iiTUATiON';:fi"THEi ; iIIEBRIMSj|||||j ■ j^MBRYMISLANDINVIOLENT Acsociation-OoDyrieht ' '■/tj.t'.'", : ■ ':Ms Sydney; December 16..■ : ■rW bo ■ cantam--of-:'.thtt steamer Pacifiquo. leports that the volcano at the. summit of-Ambrym'-Island (Now/Hebrides) was I ..in enipt W n on Dcecmber.fi. E! ". . !' yvfeix' new ..eraters<form.ed,* and on Sun|(Wj,.December :1, Mount Minnie' eoimns«l, threatening the' mission station, Py- :.Bowie's hospital, .■:and. Carmichael's property at Dip. Point. '.. /-' /,.,, .. -~ ■nn t mon,m ß'tho people were:: com- :; polled to tako refuge in boats, two of the new craters .overwhelming ■ their. ■", late 'Iholclings! ■■■•'■'■ '.''.- v.; ~ ' ' .'■■wTho church and tho mission at Craig's - Oove were abandoned." -"■'. ■. ■■■ :-.' ■There wore no. casualties among tho white population,- but many natives aro supposed to have perished.. The steamer ' trance took off five hundred natives, who wore taken to Port Sandwich.'. They wero mostly women and "children, the able-bodied men.be'mg left beliind.. ; The western 1 , part of .-the. island was all afire, making a 1 most imoressivc spectack. "' '.. ■" '■:■ ' \ , The steamer Hawkcshead, wliich has } arrived at Newcastle, reports that when | 240 miles off Fiji slio became thickly S covered with pumice dust, presumably j from the Ambrym outbreak. ," >. '■■■■: