Show NOTED EXPERT S VOLCANOES AND ND Prof Milne of Chicago the highest authority In hi the world on volcanic explosions explosions ex ex- ex- ex classifies Wild eruptions into two grades Those that up very slow slow- ly IY Those that de destroy troy most rapidly The The latter are are re the most dangerous to human life and and the face of the country Eruptions that build up mountains Are re i-e periodical wellings wellIngs wellIngs well- well Ings over of molten lava comparatively c harmless But in this building up which may cover covet a pl period of centuries natural volcanic vents jare Esre re closed dosed up and gases and blazing fires accumulate ate beneath that must eventually find the air Sooner or j later they must burst forth and then the terrific disasters of the second class dabs take place It Ii is the same cause that makes a boiler burst In 1883 of Japan exploded It was one of the most frightful eruptions 1 of m modern dern times It It sent down feet a torrent of mud and tire fire from five to ten miles broad that overwhelmed two forty villages Historians have never been lab able Ie to determine how many lives were welle actually lost by this explosion The total ran into the thou thou- sands n of Japan blew up July 15 1888 an cubic yards of rock and earth into the vall valley y beneath The lava stream from its head traveled at the rate of forty-eight forty miles an hour and was feet deep It Its Its- width ran from five to fifteen miles mUes But only persons lost their lives The grea greatest test volcanic explosion ever known was that of on on the island in the Strait of Sunda between Java and Sumatra On May 20 1883 the eruption commenced but the grea great explosion did not come until August Augus of that year The The- flames 5 from the crater c could uld be bel seen forty forty miles mUes dis dis- dis- dis tant The crashing exp explosion o oon on which followed these flames set airwaves air airwaves airwaves waves that traveled earth four times one way and times the other Every self er erin in the world was disturbed seven ven times by Ui that t blow v These ves traveled traveled trav tray at the rate of af mil miles miles' s an hour At Borneo 1116 miles s dista the noise of this eruption was heard fit t was felt feltin feltin feltin in Burmah 1478 miles dist distant nt and at PE Perth West Vest Australia AustralLa 1902 iles distant dis die tant i iThe m The explosion WS S sheard heard over a sound zone covering thir one thir tee nth of the earths earth's surf surface ce Sea waves were created by which destroyed two lighthouses s in the Strait of Sunda all the towns and villages villages villages vil vil- vil- vil lages on the shores of Javo Java I j and Sumatra Sumatra Su- Su mat matra bordering the strait all ll the vessels vessels ves yes sels and shipping there thea-e. Thirty-six Thirty thousand three hundred and eighty lives in that vicinity ended It raised a tidal wave at feet high covered square miles of ocean with lava lava dust lust dust se several Vera inches thick submerged an island six miles square and feet high in a depth of water fathoms created two new islands Beside this performance the eruptions of Vesuvius seem like childs child's I play Prof Milne was asked after Kraka- Kraka 1 toas teas performance Is it likely that there are volcanoes in the world at pr present sent that have been quiet for a long time but will one day or another their head heads off It is almost certain there are Some in Europe Many lany in Europe Some Som in n the United States Undoubtedly Mont Pelee of Martinique ha has verified has verified the eminent a authority's word |