Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-16 | Page 12 | Nineteen Centuries of Vesuvius

the slopes, forcing the lighter air upward. up-ward. It was these noxious gases, not lava or falling stones or ashes, which slew the thousands at Pompeii and recently at fit. Pierre. Pliny, who was an Admiral, ordered or-dered the Roman fleet Inshore to take up refugees, and went himself to his friend Pomponlanus at Castellamare. Fearing that the house would fall, the party bound pillows on their heads to ward off falling stones and went into the fields, where Pliny, being asthmatic and fat, succumbed - to the noxious gases. He must' have been more than ten miles from the mountain, but on low flat land. To complete a closer parallel, the devastated region will be rebuilt.' Vines will reolothe the rich new volcanic soli. The mountain will kill again. New York World. ' luTKZTZZJT CENTUSLES OF VESUVIUS - The excavation of Pompeii has fur-tolshed fur-tolshed almost the chief tourist sight of feurope. while .Bulwer tn '"The Last Days of Pompeii" has furnished even the un-,t un-,t raveled with a mental picture of human life in the little town whose outward ss--pect li to amaxingly preserved for ws. , But the first eruption of Vesuvius In A. D. 7 was probably not in the Joss of comparable to that caused by Mount P-. P-. ' lee or by the Johnstown flood. - Italian scientists suggest that the principal prin-cipal eruptions of Vesuvius conje thrice In a century. SmaUer eruptions wltn incidental in-cidental loss of life occur oftener. The ; mountain must have slain in all rnany times the number that perished In Pom-' Pom-' 'pell. That town, German savants reckon, lost 2000 people in 7s. snd what ths country coun-try bout it suffered is not known. But In 1631 3000 persons are said to have been killed, and since that date there has been Soss of life on at least a dosen occasions. - 5b the eruptions of the pet weeks, owing - to the greater density of population, as many peopls might have perished as In the first U it hsd not been for the rsll-,road rsll-,road snd ths quickened apprehension of modern sbservers. ' - " . The scientific devotion of Prof. Mattucd of the Italian Royal observatory has been compared with tMt which cost the elder Pliny his life. The observatory Is two - :n!)es rttily from the crater, but stands on a pur f the mountain and is thus pro-cid pro-cid from the norlous ses which be-1.-3 of treat s?ec;ic gravity, roll down .--' -'