ACTIVITY OF VOLCANOES.

Shannon News, 11 October 1927, Page 4

ACTIVITY OF VOLCANOES.

"WHOLE ISLAND ON FIRE."

TWENTY CONES IN ERUPTION, VANCOUVER, August 22.

Bogasloff Island, in the Western Aleutian Islands, which rose from-t4ie sea on May 18th, 1796, is intensely active again, and appears in danger of violent explosion. The Danish Consul at Seattle, returning from Eastern Siberia in a trading vessel, said that he had gone within three miles of the island. "The whole island seemed to be on fire," he said. "Smoke and steam were issuing from every part of it, and many huge cracks x;ould be seen. Hundreds of sea lions were in the water, off the island, roaring as if in protest to the burning of their island home. We could hear their roaring for six miles. Thousands of birds swarmed about the island. The water was discoloured, and there was a strong smell of sulphur.''

Cable advice received last month from Dutch Harbour, Alaska, reported Dr. T. A. Jaggar, volcanologist of Hawaii, as having seen 20 large volcanoes in action in the Western Aleutians. Dr. Jagger expressed the opinion that there would be a new spell of activity similar to that of 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake. Both Bogasloff and Fire Island, which rose from the sea in 1883, have been spasmodically erupting, being joined and separated several times by the raising and lowering of the bottom of the sea.