CABLE NEWS.
Vesuvius m Eruption.
TOSS OF UFK,
A HUGE LAVA STREAM
Rome, April 9
Mount Vesuvius has ejected thousands of incandescent rocks to a height of three thousand feet.
Deafening explosions and continued earthquakes occur, and from the villages at the base of the mountain, thousands of peasants have fled to Naples. A lava stream twenty feet in height and six hundred feet wide swept rapidly towards the village of Torre Annun/.iata, which was abandoned. Subsequently the flow slackened. The Observatory and the funicular railway have been destroyed. Several people were killed and others are missing from Sanguiseppc. A shower of ashes darkened the atmosphere twenty miles away. CINDERS A FOOT DEEP IN NAPLES. THE VIOLENCE ABATING. Rome, April 9. The King and Queen of Italy were motoring in the vicinity of Vesuvius when the eruption commenced. One hundred and fifty thousand refugees have crowded into Naples where the cinders are a foot thick. Five inhabitants of Torre Ansmmziata were engulfed in the lava and eighteen were severely injured, and just escaped. Otherwise there has been little loss of. life. Seven feet of lava covers Ottogiano.
The lava flow is apparently becoming less.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3638, 12 April 1906, Page 3
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194CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3638, 12 April 1906, Page 3
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