Show CLIMB A FiERY VOLCANO PARTY OF SCIENTISTS MAKE PERILOUS ASCENT IN MEXICO Several Are Scorched by Burning LavaTwelve Reach Rim of Crater Cra-ter After Being Nearly Overcome Over-come by Deadly Gases Guadalajara Mexico Thoroughly exhausted their hands feet and legs burned by contact with redhot rocks and lava and suffering as the result of having Inhaled sulphurous gases for several hauls 12 delegates to the international in-ternational geological congress havo returned hero after an ascent of the Colima Volcano the only continuously continuous-ly active volcano In North America The part icludoa W Harvey Weed of Washing on D C Tho Washington Washing-ton man reached the crater of tho volcano 13000 feet above the level of the sea In the last 100 years not more than six men have succeeded In reaching Collmas crater On account of tho precipitous character of the mountain and the thick covering of sand and ashes tho ascent of Colima Is regarded regard-ed as one of the most dangerous In tho world The deadly gases that Issuo from the crater and the possibility possi-bility of a violent eruption at anytime any-time make tho ascent doubly perilous The last man to attempt to reach the crater was Dr Peter H Goldsmith of Harvard university He failed and announced that It was practically impossible Im-possible to get as far as the crater Thlrtjflvo geologists started to make the ascent of tho volcano At a cost of 1000 tho state government built a house especially for their accommodation ac-commodation the foot of tho mountain moun-tain The entire 35 climbed as far as the end of the timber line and there 23 lost courage and turned back Tho remaining 12 struggled for six hours to reach the crater Long poles wero used to determine footholds as great pits of sand and ashes each of thorn capable of Insulting dozens of men exist along Collmas sides The climbers wero half blinded by smoke and steam and In constant danger from tho deadly gases but they persevered per-severed and finally cached the rim of the crater At the craters edge they encountered hot rocks and lava thrown out by an explosion the previous pre-vious night and these burned through shoes legglns and gloves Through fear of suffocation the geologists remained re-mained but a few minutes at tho crater They wero able to reach the timber lino before night overtook them and they camped on tho mountain moun-tain side until the following morning morn-Ing Tho Collma volcano Is 12D miles southwest of this city In about the samo latitude as the City of Mexico and approximately 75 miles from tho nearest point of the Pacific coast For centuriesno one knows how manyColima has been active and during the last 300 years at least violent periods have been frequent and often prolonged During these po ilods of violence the Mexican volcano becomes tho rival of Vesuvius as a spectacular performer Tho thin line ot vapor that Issues from tho crater continuously In days of comparative compara-tive quiet gives way to a great pillar pil-lar of black smoko hot rocks of various va-rious sizessome of them giant bowl derssand and ashes are thrown Into the air for hundreds of feet abovo the crest of tho mountain flames leap from the crater and lightning plays above it and terrifying subterranean subter-ranean rumblings and sharp detonations detona-tions are heard for many miles Often tho fall of sand and ashes Is so dense as to cause extreme darkness during tho daylight hours in tho vicinity of the volcano Those who climbed to the crater of Collma are W Harvey Weed Washington Wash-ington D C John E Wolf Boston E O Hover New York Rudolf Ruede mann Albany N Y II P Clcland Williamston Mass H F Heed Baltimore Balti-more Fraud D Adams and J Austen Bancroft Montreal A P Coloman Toronto George Berg and Rudolf Stobbe Berlin Germany and Tsu manaka Ikl Toklo Japan |