Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-28 | Page 29 | Mount Vesuvius Just 'Acting Up'

I MOUNT VESUVIUS JUST lip UP Cloudbursts Cause Eruption Eruption Eruption tion Scientist Reports No Damage Is Done NAPLES Nov 27 United Press Mount lount Vesuvius was just showing showing showing show show- ing off for Cor tIle the bene benefit benoit Jt of American tourists Professor di director director director di- di rector of the seismic observatory told the United Pross tonight after a journey to the thc summit of the volcano volcano volcano vol vol- vol- vol cano to observe today's eruption Vesuvius became su suddenly active last night awakening awakening- inhabitants of this city with Its rumbling Dense columns of smoke ascended from the crater and it was thought at first that a quantity of ot lava Java had overflowed the inner crater into the outer and and larger crater Many American and other tourists tourists tour tour- hurried by bv automobile to toward the volcano volcan in or order er to observe the eruption at close range Lava stones were thrown high Into the air by the internal convulsions convulsions of the mountain and with dawn the roaring of the volcano ha had become ter terrifying to unaccustomed ears l Flames and smoke i reached cached tremendous h heights above the sum sum- mit Today's eruption produced produce n n-j n se serious serious serious se- se rious results as the force furce of the ex explosions ex- ex was not nt s sufficient to damage damage dam dam- amage am- am age the villages which rest rest near the base of the mountain The eruption merely affected the tIme inner crater said to to- to night There is no movement inthe Inthe in inthe the outside crater The phenomenon non was the result of com combustion caused b by cloudbursts over the summit summit summit sum sum- mit of Vesuvius Lava was as flowIng flow- flow flowing Ing In down the sides of br f the inner one cone but without emission over 11 the 3 oU out l crust