THE LAVA STREAM
STI Id, EATING ITS WAY
(United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright).
(Received this day at 9.20. a.m.) ROME, Nov. 11.
There is no sign of a cessation of the Etna-eruption, already described as tiie worst since the seventeenth century. As the lava streams are now all making their way seawards it is Loped this will circumnavigate the damage area. Eighteen square miles arc completely devastated. The molten stream is slowlv swallowing up every tree and building on route. It was an extraordinary spectacle to see the stream jettine' small (lames, bubbling like rod hot'steel, tackle a throe arched bridge „n the sea coast. The railway arches hurst and toppled over singly as though toys, kicked over by a giant. The stream ultimately penetrated the hugest and solidest wine cellars, the heat burstings the casks. Troops worked marvels in widening the roads and reducing (lie congestion of the refugees. The lava has caused an intense heat even in Messina, Catania, and Taormina. People are sleeping in the open air. The whole neighbourhood is impregnated with the odour of petroleum.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1928, Page 5
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