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Show MUH VOLCANOES ARE ACTIVE VAPOR AND RUMBLING AND QUAKING IN CALIFORNIA. Bluish Viscid Substance is Thrown Into the Air and Then Flows Into Eel River, Laytonville. Cal.,; May 30. The mud volcanoes vol-canoes situated in this vicinity have burst into alarming activity. The first intimation the inhabitants had of the phenomenon was when an immense cloud of vapor issued from the mouth of the craters, accompanied bv a sound like far away thunder. The disturbance is so violent that great redwood trees are swayed when the mud and vapor shoots high over the rims of the craters and flows down the hillside like a iava stream into one of the tributaries of the Eel river. The murky craters are filled with a bluish mud of about the consistency of boiling tar, but the mud is icy cold. The roar of the volcanoes can be hoard for miles around. They are situated twenty miles from the ocean and consist of a number of mounds about six feet high. |