Show alaskan volcanic fires at a recent meeting of the american society for or the advancement of ence dr robert F griggs described a fiery flood which occurred in III alaska in the valley of ten thousand smokes here lie found traces or of the flood of lire fire which issuing from it fissure in the enith sept a roaring torrent of molten sand through the fertile valley devastating nil all in ili its path for a distance of more than fifteen miles from thousands of fissures live team steam heated gas and smoke e issued one could do ones cooking in any of the smaller holes and flint was tile only salvation of the expedition for all fuel had been destroyed by tile flood of fire it Is only a few steps from the steaming fissures to a cave in the side of the gl glacier acter ln in order to have the most perfect refrigeration in the I 1 world the explorers tents were steam heated as it were and the bathing conditions were of the alie best for a stream from the glacier fed a crystal pure lake in the middle of this sake lake a steam jet bubbled and it was possible to get any desired temperature |