Show VOLCANIC LAKE SWALLOWS PEAK Action Interests Scientists of Island the HILO T. T T T. II If Dec 3 A. A A massive island park rising feet above the tho level of a lake of fire tire collapsed with a tremendous roar recently bringing to a culmination unusual activity displayed displayed dis dis- played by Kilauea Hawaii's active volcano volcano volcano vol vol- cano which had attracted close observation observation observation by scientists In the place of ot the peals peak which had stood the tho ravages of ot waves of ot molten lava for tor months there appeared a white-hot white pit from which bubbling lava Java could be seen welling up amid the debris fallen crag The fall tall of the crag located near the center of ot the crater and which had served observes as a landmark oc occurred occurred or- or on November 12 The spectacle was preceded by weeks of minor changes in the orator crater after a period of comparative quiescence Prior to the fall of ot the peak lava in the throat of the crater had been rising steadily over overa a period d of several e weeks e bringing bringing- g n the noV oV g rl surface u of l r the molten I lake it to a point approximately feet teet below the upper upper upper up up- per rim of the pit During this Period period period pe pe- the lava was unusually turbulent forming a succession of cascades and andin andin in many parts of the crater obliterating ing islands islands' which had been standing for months Observers at Kilauea report an extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary ex ex- phase of movement among the lava islands which dotted the pit Simultaneously with the formation o of the cascades s masses of the cooled rock showing showing- above the surface changed their positions frequently In some somo cases became unusually turbulent In instances crags of rock jetting high in m the air remnants of former high h marks reached by the lava were split in twain by newly formed crevasses asses Heavy avalanches have been falling from the walls walla of ot the pit an and according according according accord accord- ing to the staff of ot the Hawaiian Volcano Volcano Volcano Vol Vol- cano observatory a recently formed or dormant pit southwest of tho the crater has become red hot watching the phenomena say further developments are expected at any time |