Deseret Evening News | 1909-12-08 | Page 1 | Samoan Volcano One of World's Wonders

I SAMOAN VOLCANO ONE OF WORLDS WONDERS I San Francisco Dec Dee 8 Tho volcano oleano on the time Island ll of Sarah Savall Sal of the Samoan group roup which burst Into activity in 1905 1305 is now one of ot the wonders of ot I ho tho world according to Prof Proto Henry H E B Campion Cumpton of ot tho ho University of ot Columbia Columbia who arrived arr d here hero yesterday on 01 the liner Alameda Prof who i II Is a biologist I and anthropologist of ot note noto associated with the tho American museum of ot na nat t tural history and time the In loft heft hero here May Ma 20 and has hal been engaged over eyer anee 8 nee In research work among time the Islands of or the South seas easI It I was wan in time tho course of ot his travels that he lie visited Savall Saval of which lit little l tle tic has Imas been heen heard of at late Inte The Time lava laa from the volcano has flowed to tho thu sea into limb which It has built bui a n solid wall wa which extends for five miles along the shore and projects about half haJ a n mile mie Into the sea sen Prof Prot Grampian spent a night at nt tho rim Ihn of 01 the thi crater The Tho lake of lire fire formerly level leol with the time crater crater mouth now lies les feet below tho th rim It I Is h IsI half haIr a mile mie In length and anti a third of that in width Halt Half a mile mie away awny I It was possible to read by Imy 11 the glare glam reflected from fromn the sky sk As A a spectacle the time said It professor wets was as tremendous