ETNA IN ERUPTION.
(Received September 15, 8.5 a.m.)
ROME, September 14
Seventy-seven craters are in eruption, and are throwing smoke and incandescent blocks to a considerable height.
The central crater is hurling,' with fury, rocks weighing many tons. • Lava is advancing at a hundred and twenty metres an hour, in a stream five hundrd metres broad (a metre is equal to 3ft 3in.) The railway is flooded, and impassable. A number of villas have been destroyed, and rain and ashes continue to fall. ' In Catania the estimated damage is £250,000. Crowds of English and American tourists are ascending Etna. (Received September 15, 11.20 a.m.) ROME, September 14. , Earthquakes are reported from Florence, Vienna, and elsewhere.
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Lava from Mt. Etna has destroyed the fertil district called Imboxhimento.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10425, 16 September 1911, Page 3
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134ETNA IN ERUPTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10425, 16 September 1911, Page 3
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