Show 0 The Yrobable Cause of the Phenomena Phen-omena San Francisco 28 Professor Davidson received from Alaska today to-day the particulars of the volcanic disturbances in October last near the entrance to COOKS islet On the morning of the 6th of October a settlement of fishermen on the Eng lish Bay heard a heavy report looking in the direction the sound they saw an immense volume of smoke and flames suddenly burst fortn from the summit of Mount Augustine The sky became obscured ob-scured and A few hours after great quantities of pumice dust began to fall some fine and smooth some gritty At 330 oclock on the same day an earthquake wave thirty feethigh came rushing in over the hamlet sweeping away all the boats and deluging the houses get eat the time being low saved the settlement from utter destruction destruc-tion This was followed by the other waves about eighteen feet high which were succeeded at ir reguar intervals by others Pumice Pum-ice aaoes fell to a depth of tive inches making the day so dark that lamps had to be lighted At night the surrounding country was illuminated il-luminated by the flames from the crater Ordinarily Mount Augus I tin is covered with snow but this year it has been completely hare An examination after the disturbance subsided found the mountain split in two from base to srmnit the northern slope had fauen to a level with the surroundings surround-ings The result of the eruption was the formation of a new island in the passage between Chornaboura island and the mainland seventy five feet high and a mile and a halt long The violence of tte volcanic action was so great that two extinct ex-tinct volcanoes on the Peninsula of Alaska lying to the west of the volcano of liiamna 12000 feet high burst into activity emitting immense im-mense volumes of smoke and dust and flames were visible all night It is stated that the wives of a party of Alent Indians engaged in that locality in otter hunting became afraid of the subterranean noise re fused to stay and returned home None of those who remain2d can bj found |