ERUPTING ETNA

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 September 1911, Page 3

ERUPTING ETNA

A GRAND SPECTACLE. THE MARCH OF TERROR. LllT BLBOTRIO THLEGRAPH--COPTRIOHT.J [PER PRESS AS.SOCZ.ITION.J ROME, September 14. The eiruption was a grander spectacle than that of 1910 Sixiteen craters -arc belching lire and smoke, and the two lower ones lava, which. is travelling 100 yards hourly, ravaging viny:in!s ck-st-roying cottages and pine forests, and burning fiercely. There are in:rss;int eartih'fiuakes, accompanied l by noises .like bombs exploding. Tiro inliaibitaints f<re panic-stricken, and are seeking safety on the plains. SEVENTY-SEVEN CRATERS. TERRIFIC SCEN'ES. ENORMOUS DA^IAGE. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) WOV.K. September 14. Seventy-seven craters 'are erupting smoke and incandescent blocks. The central crater is furiously hurling rocks weigibing many tons to a considerable height. Lava is advancing at the rate of one hundred and twenty metres: an hour. One stream is five hundred metres Inoad. The railway is flooded and is impassable. A number of villas have beeai destroyed. Rain and ashes continue to fnll in Catania, and the estimated damage is £250,000. Crowds nf English and American tourists: *re ascending Etna.