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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1563, 23 November 1885, Page 4

Cental. America" ad vice g-ivps details oT.rhe eruption 01 ['the volcano of Cotopaxi, whip)}; occurred [early ; on the morning of the 23rd lot' July. The Wacvm x :of^Gu.iya.quill reports, that,^ abouc one o'clock m the morning people were awakened by l a heavy artillery, nppßrently .ffomrguna of the heaviest calibrel' 1 the explosions lowed, ivith, wonderful rapidity, sometimes causinsr a/.; continuous roar, shaking -the earth apd . causing, the, windows and the doors of the houses to rattle. A teiegramrTrom Chimho to Gfcnayiiqn.ill steles that- in, that city^it^atedjalLaipstvait tbe faot of the volcano, t"hera was what the resi-dent/alongi-tlmr^^ Ya^ua call « t an j illusion;, Tl)e ; . phenomenon ' which .these .people understand sjs an alluvion .is. really a "stream ;, of lava whicli descends the mountain sicjes, meltin&;tbe;,snow with which t jt; cove?e3,!,and spoviiing down a ,ttfßmeja- ; <lous;,n»a<^. of lava, mad, stpnef!, and all ofetacjes . encpnntered, m its v progresß.f. Ipveis^oratipn. t during .the <3ay showed that the/shocks, produced by tbe (eyplosion^ dimpg the, night .wpre exceeJinglj' heavy., , T ;The. s'moke^huti£» ' like.. # a,i! pall „ovep the ■ face, of the country,,, and , thesteady fail of ashes throwp:conßtanf;ly;put:of |>he terrible cratgr-y .intensified; the „d arkness. AecQuntfl>fro,ro Latacunga state that theoatuptipsfis; conxmenced with a terrihlfi.storm. n .The .damage, done was considerable, , but the number of victims is not known. ,A similar ca J;aß— trop^eyJccUtred in.Junq, 1877.