VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION.
PANIC-STBICKEN CITIZENS. DAMAGE TO RAILWAY. Bomb, April 9. Vesuvim ejected thousands of incandescent cooks to a height of three thousand feet. The deafening explosions have continued. Earthquakes have been felt in the Tillages at the base. Thousands hive refuged iu Naples. Lava, (went? feet in height, and six hundred feet wide, swept rapidly towards Torre Amunziata, which was abandoned. Subsequently the flow slackened. The observatory and funicular railway have been destroyed. Bevoral persons have been killed and other* are missing. At San Gttisef pe a shower of ashes darkened the atmosphere twenty mile 9 away.
LOSS OF LIFE^ 150,000 REFUGEES IN NAPLES. EMTPtION GREATEST SINCE 1631. Home, March 9. The King and Queen of Italy are motoring in the vicinity of Vesuvius. One hundred and fifty thousand refugees have crowded into Naples, where the cinders are a foot thick. . Fire inhabitants of Torre Amunziata were engulfed and eighteen severely injured The latter just escaped. Otherwise there has been little loss of life. There is seven feet of lava at Ottogiano. The eruption is the greatest since 1631. . The lava flowjs apparently mirigat-
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. HOUSES COLLAPSE UNDER WEIGHT OF SAND. PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT POMPF.TI RUINS. Received IU, 10.45 p.m. Rome, April 10. ' A rain of ashes from Mt. Ottaiano destroyed the estates-throughout the Sangiusippo district. Pressure of sand on the roofs caused houses and a church at Sangiusippc to collapse. Two hundred perished. Fifty bodies have been recovered. Saveral fatalities occurred at Ottaiano. Some boys trod on a morass of cooling lava, and were engulfed. Ashes on the railway line at Portici ,de-ailed a train. Barricades have been erected to prevent the lava from reaching Pompeii. The King and Queen of Italy, at great personal ash, motored through the devastated villages, amidst a gale of whirling cinders and sand, and com forted the sufferers. The activity of the volcano is diminishing, but the discharge of balls of fire and showers of sand continues. ; Black dost has descended as far jHrijjr as Montenegro. ' The principal crater of Vesuvius has sank 360 metres below its formal level
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8082, 11 April 1906, Page 3
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