Two Eruptions.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 90, 16 December 1913, Page 5

Two Eruptions.

ALARMING DISTURBANCES.

AN ISLAND ON FIRE.

IN THE NEW HEBRIDES.

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(Received 10.40 a.m.) Sydney, December Jo. The captain of the steamer Pacifiijue

reports that the volcano on the summit of Ambrym Island was in eruption on December 6th. Six new craters had been formed.

On Sunday, the seventh, Mount Minnie collapsed, threatening the mission station, Dr. Bowie’s hispital, and Mr Carmichael’s property at Dip

Point. Next morning they were compelled to take refuge in boats. Two new craters overwhelming the late holdings, the church and the mission, Craig’s Cove, was abandoned.

There was no casualties among the white population, but many natives are supposed to have perished.

The steamer France saved five hundred natives who were taking to port Sandwich. Most were women and children. The Vessel left behind the ablebodied men.

The western part of the island was all afire.

It presented a most impressive spectacle.

OUT AT SEA.

A COATING OF PUMICE DUST.

The steamer Hawkeshead, which has arrived at Newcastle reports that 240 miles off Fiji the sea was thickly covered with pumice dust, presumably from the Ambrym outbreak.

OLD WRECK CAST ASHORE.

RESULT OF SUBMARINE ACTION.

INTERESTING FOSSIL DIS-

COVERIES. (Received 11.30 a.m.) New York, December 15. A submarine disturbance has occurred off the Californian 1 coast, violently agitating the sea. The wreck of an ancient vessel, which it is believed has lam on tne bottom of the sea for a hundred years, has been cast ashore. Identification of the wreck is impossible.

’A mastodon’s skull with the tpsvs arid a , large portion of the vertabrae intact was also thrown ashore. • Foreshore works, in many places along the coast have been damaged by the violence of the waves.