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Show AOTIVE VOLCANOES. llarolot Mountain nf Doath and Cateal Ataerlcm That Ilo llesdly Work. The volcano of Ablna, in Teru, which for a ocntury and a half had been considered con-sidered extinct, suddenly nwoka from Its long sleep tho other day nnd began pouring forth lnvn, smoke and ashes In such quuntltles ns to obscuro the tun up to tho dato of tho last report, says a Panama correspondent of the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Pross. Together with this news comes as account of remarkably sovero earthquakes earth-quakes in Ecuador that shook the whole Pacific slope and extended far Into tho Interior. A series of rapid, violont shocks continued ono minute nnd somo seconds. It created tho greatest terror in Guayaquil, whero at ovcry convulsion It appenred ns though the pllc-bullt structures must go over. However, no dnmagq to speak of , occurred oc-curred thoro, but several accounts of disasters had arrived from the Interior. In-terior. At Canar seven families and tholr homes aro known to havo been swallowed up by tho earth. One cu' rlous lncldont nt Guayaquil was tho bursting open of tho doors of tho pent-' tcntlary. Many convicts escaped beforo be-foro tho demoralized guards could pall themselves together to prevent It Then tho guards fired indiscriminately on tho prisoners, thoso fleeing from crumbling walls as well m those escaping. es-caping. Tlio city waterworks were so damaged that n water famine was Imminent. Im-minent. This acrlos of shocks was felt ovor nn area of eighty thousand square miles. At almost tho samo time Coto-paxi Coto-paxi nnd Turgurahua burst forth In such n tcrrlblo activity as has not characterized them during the last two centuries. Tho South American volcanoes frequently ravage their Im-medtato Im-medtato neighborhood, but it Is believed be-lieved hero is another instance that they uro safety valves that render the continent habitable. Ilcports of unusual volcanic activity all along tho lino of tho continental backbone hnvo been comlwr In sine tho boginnlng of the year, and those mora recently to hand indicate a steadily increasing disturbance. Alarming Alarm-ing accounts arrived last week from Mexico of tho condition of Collma, which, pouring forth vast volumes of lava and a regular bombardment bom-bardment of rocks nnd ashes, had sent tho peoplo of Jalisco fleeing In terror from their houses. Only a few months ago dispatches from Chill and Perm told of flcrco outbursts among tha volcanoes of tho southorn Andes, and, later yet, of the selsmlo disturbance tn tho volcanic region of Cauo, in Colombia, by which an entire mountain rldgo was swallowed up and a deop depression de-pression loft, whllo clsowhoro In that ftnmo region two rivers wore burled by tho side of a mountain tumbling Into the valley. |