Show VILLA + ES IN i m GREAT DANGER nANGERg > f Ancient S Volcano Now Vomiting Jig J-ig Poisonous Gases 1 and Fire t a Ie j GREAT ALARM EXISTS Masses to Ward Off the Impending Impend-ing Danger The Earth for One Handrcd JIlel Around 1 Shaken Periodically it and While the bhocltf Have Done nut Little Durance So Per It Is Feared They Presage the Opening tt of Oilier Crnter4 Kc > nlt Aid Hard to Foretell Cordoza State of Vera Cruz Mexico March 10The peak of Orizab an ancient volcano Is in a state of eruption erup-tion tionThe signs of disturbances began to manifest themselves last Sunday night and have increased In force constantly j since that time I i now vomiting poisonous gases and thick volumes of smoke are emit ted from a hundred apertures in its great maw The earth for 100 miles around Is shaken periodically with subterranean vibrations A great alarm exists among tho 1 dwellers in i the allies of Cordova Ori zaba Kaiapa and the dozens of small villages scattered within the scope of the strange and interesting phenomenon The shocks a yet ave not been or serious nature and no damage from them has been reported Grand But Dangerous The nm of the crater glows like fire and the thick gases rolling down the mountain sides have set aflame the grasses and vegetation clothing the sides to the summit which adds to the density of the smoke and the grandeur of the spectacle For public safety the governor of the state of Vera Cruz will shortly name a commission of scientists to make all the investigation into the eruption possible and to make recom mendaJtions looking to the protection of the inhabitants of the neighboring villages The present eruption Is in the 1 ear of the best improved lads in Mexico The coffee plantations are not as yet thought to be in danger of damage dam-age nor will they be unless a fall of thick ashes occurs which is not considered j con-sidered probable S Ialll Are Said Masses are being said in all the i chub of the locality to ward oft the impending danger Coming son after the late destructive volcanic activities in many parts of the republic repub-lic the erruption of Orizaba h many terrors not only to the people in its vicinity but all living in the great volcanic vol-canic belt of Mexico stretching from the abtive volcano of Colima on the west coast clear to the gulf of Mexico on the east Within this belt are numbered bered dozens of old craters either in repose or smoking constantly It i natural to suppose that should its eruptions erup-tions continue the other volcanoes will be affected and a general earthquake period set in The consequence of such a catas trophe are hard to tell but could hardly be anything less than V r disastrous I dis-astrous to Puebla Mexico City and the i hundreds of other towns in the beart I of Mexico |