Show eruption of vesuvius AN AmEr AMERICAN amK KILLED our foreign papers that the eruption of Ve vesuvius savins d during uri in g the W week ea of february 1853 was one of the most brilliant that lim lias ever taken place it continued for fivel five days and nights and illuminated the he whole region its as fur off as the island of some 2 20 miles the tha railroads out of naples ran all night to carry persons who went out to witness the gra grand n d spec spectacle tae le the emission of lava was so great that it flowed in a stream throe miles wide and thirty feet ft deep to tile the distance of seven miles on the side of the maun mountain tain opposite naples thirty two houses two churches chur and an im immense inenio number of vineyards and firms farms wire were i destroyed by the burning river an entirely new crater it is said has been formed tho we have as yet no scientific account of the phenomenon it appears that the eruption erupt 1 I was remarkably sadden sudden as noaie none of the usual signs had preceded it A letter states that the mountain mount nin literally roared with the efforts it ii made to disgorge itself the noise iloise was like the firing of cannon at sea and at wary evary discharge there was thrown up a amass mass of lava and rocks which at night looked like balls bails of fire A guide who was anthe en the mountain ti at the time says in the middle of the mountain towards somma in an instant a grotto was formea full of stalactites of salt and marine salt iwas I 1 was a about boutto to gather some portion of it when the grotto began to open as if under inder the influence afan of an earthquake and as I 1 fled flea I 1 found that my clothes were burned upon my back had I 1 not quickened my speed rn my v life would have been sacrificed for in the same moment om there issued forth a current of lava forty m palms ant in breadth whence as a also from the crater eram cram were thrown up bombs and in ton ten minutes the lava had extended to the foot ol of somma forming a most wonderful and beautiful seen scene ex by the ox mail I 1 |