IN ERUPTION.
LATEST CABLE NEWS
AIT. ETNA BREAKS OUT A SECOND I'OMPEIJ. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at 12.15 p.m.) ROME, June 18. ATt Etna has been in most violent eruption since yesterday. Thousands of tons of lava lias been emitted by the main crater, while five new craters have appeared. Some of the most fertile vineyard-, farms, and woods have been destroyed, together with many houses, 'The railway station at Castiglioite was destroyed. 'The lava stream, three hundred and fifty yards wide, is advancing three hundred yards an hour, threatening the town of Lingualcisn. 'The latter. as well as Ca-tiglione. has I eon (ompletely evacuated, die inhabitants fleeing with their portable belongings. When the latest advices were received the molten stream was only three thousand leet from Ca.stiglione. which is feared will he completely obliterated. FURTHER PARTICULAR.-?. EON In >N. duo.- is. Reuter’.- Naples entro.-pondeiil -ays several eruptions were preceded by loud explo-ions in the northern part ol Mount Etna. Streams of leva have destroyed a considerable area of cultivated ground, piueweoj. and C'usliglioim railway station. A stream of lava three hundred feet wid". threatens Eingualose district.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1923, Page 3
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191IN ERUPTION. Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1923, Page 3
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