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Show MOUNT LASSEN INJROPTION Fourteenth of Series of Violent Vio-lent Disturbances Occurs in Early Morning. STEAM A MILE .HIGH Strong Stench of Sulphur Perceptibly Per-ceptibly Noted Twenty-two Twenty-two Miles Away. Red Bluff. Call, July 1 After less than 24 hours of quiescence, Lassen peak burst forth early today In a stupendous eruption the fourteenth ; In the series that began May 30. No flames were seen, but the vast plume of blackened steam from the crater waved a mile high in the sky and volcanic ash fell at Macomber flats, 13 miles distant For a little less than half an hour the Inverted cone of soaring gases, maintained sharply, defined the Well ijia"wn volcanic outline First, from the mouth of the crater itself, .-tooil up a vertical shaft of Jetblack ash. As the shaft rose, it mushroomed outward, out-ward, keeping at its heart the black core of ash So great was the force of the eruption erup-tion that the height of the cloud seemed to equal the distance from the mouth of the crater to the plateau pla-teau at the base of the peak proper It was almost as if one mountain had been stood atop of the other. Seemed to Be Two Eruptions. At this distance there was the appearance ap-pearance of what Beemed a thin sheet of gases hissing from a crevice or fissure on the north slope, distinct from the main crater itself. Two eruptions seemed to be going on at the same time. The true volcanic nature of the eruption, as determined by J. S Dil-ler Dil-ler of the United States geological survey, was further emphasized today by the strong stench of sulphur pr- j ceptible at Volta and at Viola, '11 miles down the wind to the north. |