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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 47, 13 July 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

A recent message from Vancouver elates that the volcanic eruptions in Alaska have provided some magnificent spectacles. One spectator describes the scenes as the grandest and most terrifying he ever witnessed, the flaming Mount Katmai rivalling even the conceptions of Dante. The villages on Kodiak and Woody Islands are buried a foot under ' ashes, hut no lives are reported to have been lost. Many other settlements nearer the volcano must have suffered indescribably. The revenue steamer Manning, which was in port at Kodiak when the eruptions began, furnished a refuge for the 500 inhabitants. At one 1 time it seemed as though everyone must 1 be suffocated by the noxious gases with 1 which the air was filled. The scene 1 throughout the stricken area is now one ' of utter desolation. For over forty hours ' the people were huddled together in the ' darkness. The absence of light has ' made navigation off the Alaskan coast 1 extremely difficult and dangerous. In r spite of the perils the steamer Manning ; has been groping her way along the north-western shore of Kodiak Island to ' give what assistance she can to the dis- ' tressed inhabitants. Th« ashes ejected ' from Mount Katmai travelled extraord- } inary distances, the finer particles coming • as far as Victoria (8.C.), which is 1300 ' miles from Alaska. i A pretty girl never looks absurd unless 8 she tries to be a prig.—"The Wooing of i Martha," by G. Guise Mitford.