Show 3 Killed by Mt Etna Eruption Hundreds Flee From Lava Flood Sicily Nov i AP deaths in the Mt Etna first The were reported re re- re in eruption now flow three men a father today ported being the victims son and grandson returned to a doomed three TIle The in this town to rescue household household house house- house slept there overnight over over- and hold goods round found them night The morning lava and by surrounded were forced their fellow townsmen overtake them from to watch the death lava lake helplesS he to beyond give them aid ald C CATANIA Sicily NOV S AP- AP With a molten stream of lava like a hungry dragon at their backs to spur them on n. n hundreds hundreds' of persons today were fleeing from the region around the eastern base of ot Mount Etna Their household belongings were thrown on any makeshift ve vehicle vehicle ye- ye hicle bide to get them out of the ad advancing advancing advancing ad- ad column of ot fire Barnyard straggled along with the people vho ho were abandoning their fields and homes to the molten stream which advanced at a rate of more than yards an hour The most fertile and Intensively elY Continued on page C. C L 3 Killed by Mt ML Etna Eruption Hundreds Flee From Lava Flood Continued from I r rage 5 1 1 cultivated land in Sicily was being consumed b by the la lava laa were being destroyed and trees tree burned Great Greet clouds of steam team arose arole as the heat reached the vats of cof the distilleries which produce citi Curb cUIle le acid Till Tho blazing biasing sulphurous current siv Wept pt away a monument to the war dead which was sas to have been I inaugurated Sunday at Mascall The Thep p P im ira t church of ot the town felt fell pi r to the Lava la The railway line between Messina and Catania was In l grave ra danger The situation was regarded as critical cal eel since alnee normal facilities linking central Sicily with the coast are few Cn The authorities s thought that if a largo large quantity of la lava collected collect collect- ed M along the railroads it would re remain remain re- re main Incandescent for lor a long time and the work of repair would be delayed All AU extra rolling stock was as being removed rapidly The el electric lighting plant supplying supplying sup sup- plying current to the provinces of ot Catania Catanis and Syracuse TV was as ger gerd t |