Show NATURES ANTICS remarkable Ro Pho nomona in south era arn california unfathomable ris Iris Burca in the cro cre atod by Iti internal tornal Conr alIon A very Ile Ite clou clon A few months montha ago a small party of prospectors ctorn left san diego for that little known country lying bolow below the mexican boundary just west of the colorado river this region is supposed to be full of valuable mineral deposits and prolific in natural phenomena they spent a couple of weeks on what is known at aa the santa ysabel ranch om honi milc northwest of the cocopah r 1 aimi while there they heard 1 during several days a v y rumbling had bad been heard in tho the tall tion of the Coco proceeding to las ajuntas juntas 5 a little mado made up of a few indians and a whito man or two they spent several days daya there in prospecting eting hero here they were told by a man named elliott that from a high hill he had seen what seemed to be a cloud over tho the cocopah mountains and had also aicard heavy rumblings gs and once at night had seen been a dull light apparently on the very top of tho the mountain ile ho believed it to bo be a volcano indians had also brought reports that unusual 1 l disturbances had been observed in the cocopah region and they were greatly frightened they re crossed tho the line into tho the united states and at indian wells on the colorado desert not only heard moro more about the rumblings gs and smoke but for the first time saw the smoke themselves a cloudlike cloud like lilic shape that seemed to rest al moton almost on tho the earth the party came westward and on tho the night when tho the earthquake shock was felt in san diego were camped on an elevation some feet above the sea level that night 0 they not only felt the rl BC verest earthquake shock but plainly saw a great light shoot upward in tho the heavens directly over what was believed to be the main cocopah mountain tho the light continued with greater or le lc brilliancy late into the night while tho the rumbling was almost incessant and tho the tremors frequent the next morning a murky cloud of the color made by burning sulphur hung like a vast umbrella low on tho the horizon all dagand day and there were frequently recurring shocks of earthquake tho the party remained in camp that night and saw the light in the same place but much fainter geor george 13 c who liaa haa a ranch on the eastern castern slope of the mountains said that on the ni night ht of the great shako shake he saw an illumination of the heavens directly over the cocopah mountains the light changed re rc peat heatedly edly being sometimes very bright brighta dull and almost imperceptible the next morning lie lic saw an um brella shaped cloud where ho he had seen the light the night before there is no doubt in tho the minds of all who saw the light that it was an active volcano george campbell an old bt of the campo camp country and proprietor of tho macumba jacumba ranch on the edge of tha desert states that a few days af after pr tho the first severe earthquake he wa was i on the desert looking after cattle that had strayed far in tho the direction of indian wells lie he found that the earth was erwi cracked alced in ia many places as a result of the earthquake me fissures were nearly two feet A 0 c afternoon lie was wag riding when his horse home stumbled on the alg c of a huge lis lassure sure ile he recovered himself however and jum jumped pe I 1 across campia campbell Camp boll 11 turned back V to look at tho the huge cre crevice which was abut ut eighteen to twenty two inches wide and extended north and nd south as w far as he could see and apparently had no bottona the old fla stage r c road from campo to yuma passes through a doea canyon both sides of which rise rio apparently to a great hei height ht mr gaskell says nays that one hundred hu huge huc c have been dislodged from the the mountain sides ides and rolled to the bottom of tho the canyon obstructing ting travel so much that it is almost impossible to got get through with a this canyon ia 13 ner nerr r coyote wells in jac macumba jacumba araba valley where are ar hot and cold aprin sprin sp springs rin to which many invalids resort for bathing mr campbell the proprietor sa say 3 that tho the how flow a of the hot springs hu has boozed |