Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-05-17 | Page 2 | Awful Sublimity of Soufriere's Eruption

A AWFUL SUBlIMITY OF ERUPTION KINGSTOWN of St. St Vincent May 17 The 17 The Rev Mr 11 Darrell gives an excellent description of the eruption of I La Mr 11 Darre Darrell said aid We rowed tp to within eight miles of the crater from rih lich a majestic body of vapor r as ascended ended Th The was s su sub lime beyond imagination Steam z smoke and lave lava f ed an an i awful a pil pillar 0 which appeared to us to be at least eight miles high We rowed on but bit an Immense cloud of dark and d dense volcanic materi materi ma ma- teri l descended in our pathway impeding im im- Im- Im our progress and warning us to stop The mighty bank of sulphurous vapor assumed the shape of a gigantic promontory it then became a mass of revolving cloud which turning with in incredible incredible in- in credible velocity assumed beautiful r flower shapes some dark some effulgent effulgent efful efful- gent while others w were vre re pearly white and all were brilliantly illuminated by b electric flashes 11 4 C f Darkness then fell up n the waters and a black rain of dust gust des descended ended upon us The thundering from the e mountain andt the and e earthquake shocks hocks all produced a scene of f incredible dille majesty and horror The plutonic energy of the trie mountain Increased momentarily until our boat returned to Kingstown the crew cowed and Impressed with the thie weirdness of the scene scene- and covered I thickly with the k dust The rhe cable repair ship ur t has found the bed of in ha ocean c aan an much disturbed At on one place q th the ship bip found fathoms of water re ea only lOG fathoms were dov do harts Re Re- charting may b be ri necessary ce f I le Ok