| Show I i MOLTEN LAVA LA V AND FLOOD Strange things things' have been happening happening happening happen happen- ing in the South Sea Islands writes a Sydney correspondent of the Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago gaily baily News In Samoa a volcano volcano vol vol- cano has broken broleen out which belched forth a torrent of molten mo ten lava three miles mUe wide clear to the the sea Fortunately Fortunately Fortunately Fortun Fortun- the land over which the torrent torrent torrent tor tor- rent flowed was a desert and though the sight was singularly singular y Impressive very little harm was done From the Marshall islands however comes a different tale There was a terrific hurricane ne swept over the atolls and islets of which the group is composed and where most most of the Euro- Euro European i settlers reside was was' washed by byan byan byan an enormous en enormous wave at least six feet high which suddenly transformed that Islet into a lake in which the natives with their families swam for their lives and the native houses floated d about At noon the day of the hurricane at the sky sley was pitch dark darle ex ex- for balls of fire which occasionally occasion occasion- P Pally ally lit up the scene Breadfruit and cocoanut trees were knocked down J Jand and piled up as high as houses Tho The mission building by far the finest fi est In Inthe 1 All Al the Marshall group was reduce to to- ruins Large masses of rock and j Sl coral washed up from the lagoon I. I were strewn about here and there i Of f the magnificent wharf which h the i j Germans had erected at a cost of much labor and money not a trace trace- remains Over seventy natives were were- 1 killed by falling trees or were drown drowned drown drown- ed and with the exception of the German German Ger Ger- f man company's large store was almost entirely destroyed European residents residents' took shelter or successively In a bowling alley in an an j oven a bathhouse a bar and eventually eventually eventually ally in a store and managed to survive sur sur- vive The new steamer Germania with the utmost difficulty succeeded in riding out the storm Altogether they seem to have had a pretty prett rough time at the Marshall group group I j |
