| Show VOLCANOES IN MEXICO MEXICO at present enjoys the illation of having baving a volcano in a violent state of eruption the province of colima is situated on the Paci file coast tilde side of the republic it is ia one of the richest agricultural regions of mexico the city bearing bear no the same name is located at an altitude of 1450 feet and contains inhabitants it to ia about sixty miles inland from the seaport town of manzanillo north of ahe the city and about twenty miles distant is the great volcano of colima it has been for two or three weeks in a very active state of eruption ashes have been carried a distance of miles by strong winds the flames which burst from the crater illuminate the country for miles around on wednesday the lost laist the eruption was particularly violent and accompanied compa nied with several shocks of earthquake A number of houses in the city of colima were shattered shattered even the shocks were felt so far duit as acapulco many miles further furtner down tiler the coast the governor of the province ordered the residents of the towns adjoining the volcano to abandon their homes and move further away the volcano consists of two bones named respectively the volcano of snow now and the volcano of fire the latter to Is causing the present warm alarm it has an altitude of feet the first eruption of which there is any record took place in 1611 A great deal of property was destroyed at that time ashes and scoriae were thrown out a for a dis tance of one hundred miles in circumference in 1743 1748 it again belched forth huge volumes of fire and did immense damage to the surrounding country sixteen years later a new volcano broke out about one hundred red and sixty miles east of colima which did great damage also in 1806 an earthquake occurred in these regions which destroyed a large part of the city of Za tian and caused 2000 persons persona to lose their lives in 1818 there was a dreadful eruption by which consider able life and property were lot nothing very serious has occurred since until the present outbreak which promises to be attended with much danger |
