Show ina A STATE OF ERUPTION excelsior invading hells halfacre excelsior geyser bettor known as hells half acre is now and has been for several days in active eruption captain harris superintendent of the yellowstone national parts and william douglas and charles BL stuart of tho arnold hughee geological survey have gone to the middle geyser basin to domain nomain on the scene of action until it is ascertained what will be the probable duration of the outbreak should the eruption be as violent and prolonged as that of 1882 the whole formation will bo torn up and blown into the air curtain paradise maggie blue eye and peacock lakes will bo utterly wiped out and hells half acre will become the sole survivor of all that occupied the middle geyser basin what was originally but half an acre became a fouracre lot of turbulence after the eruption of 1882 and will now become a square mile if the present eruption continues a month the roads are anuw about op opeland enand there will bo a rush to see this great natural wonder it should never be regarded as a geyser in the ordinary sense of that term geysers usually build a shaft and confine their actions in a methodical way within a well benned denned outlet hells half acre may be regarded as a liquid and rock volcano whose eruptions are accompanied by earthquake ings continually tearing down its walls and invading the domain of all its more peaceful neighbors |