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Show VOLCANO IS IN v ' STATE OF ERUPTION SAN FRANCI8CO, Feb. 28.-For several sev-eral hours on the night of January 1 a hower of black ashes, fell on the decks of the-Paclflo Mall ateamer San Joo off the coast of Nicaragua.. At midnight the. officer on watch made out the flaming torch of the volcano of Moraotombo, thirty miles Inland from Corinto nd fifty miles In a direct course from the .Ban Jose, and the understood that the fall of ashes came from the erupting- mountain. moun-tain. For several hours the volcano and Its flames were In sight. . , On the return trip, when the Ban Jose called at Corinto, the facts about the eruption were learned. It was also learned that the destruction caused by the volcano's vol-cano's outburst, at first believed toy the Klcaragusns to hare been extensive, had been remarkably slight. Moraotombo was then only smoking, as of old. ' |