Show S Italian Volcano Wipes Out Town Towi I-I I ia Stream of Lava Changes Change I Course After Destroying Destroy Destroy- ing 40 Homes TORRE ANNUNZIATA Italy June 5 AP Molten AP-Molten Molten lava from wrathful Vesuvius moving on a front f feet et wide invested th the h hamlet S ml 55 of P Pagani ga n Terzigno i t tow township town town- ship at 3 a. a m. m destroying fort forty farm dwellings The fiery torrent 23 feet high ti th hen n lt proceeded westward from fron Terzigno toward the railway stat station sta eta t tion at tile the rate rate of OC nearly i 50 feet fee an hour One branch of the now flow Invested the tile woods at Campitello the change o in direction arousing hopes the rich agricultural section around T Terzigno supporting people might l be spared in Jn large larg V par part pare I V par part pare The director of or special volcano services service i of or the ministry of or public works Romans nomans spent the night at Terzigno conferring con con- ferring at length with military and engineering authorities NAPLES Italy June 5 AP Ar- Ar Huge clouds of smoke laden Jaden with ashes from the belching throat o ot of Mount Vesuvius hung over Naples today and turned the tile brightness o or of noon into a sort of ot twilight Neapolitans were unable to see their thell familiar land landmark marl which was was clouded by smoke Issuing from its crater The Associated Press correspondent correspond correspond- ent vIsited Terzigno this morning and found conditions desperate Families were withdrawing with altheir al all all their belongings ings and cattle They flocked into the churches on the line of ot retreat invoking Saint Gennaro Gennaro Gennaro Gen- Gen naro and praying before shrines Troops took possession of villages to o pi prevent event marauding after the in inhabitants inhabitants inhabitants in- in habitants had departed TraIn service to has been seen discontinued The trains run only as far as Boscotrecase The Tile inhabitants believe that the eruption has reached the importance of or that of 1906 |