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Show nuiKaoiBHEU MOUNT KATMAI POURINQ ASHES OVER SURROUNDING COUNTRY AND IMPERILS MANY LIVES. Deafening Explosions Occur at Short Intervals, the Ground in Some Places Being Covered From Three to Four Feet With Ashes. Beward. Ataakit. Katmul volcano, n the Ah'Kkn peninsula, I in violent rupfioti imtl grave fears arc entertained enter-tained lor I lie anfety of tin inliabl-UuiiH inliabl-UuiiH of Ko'iiak und neighboi Ing k1;iih!h. Iik luilli:i Indiana It Ib eallinatcJ that l .'.oo iiefMoim are In peril. It U the height of th'- ciilnton cannliiK wagon wa-gon hmJ larse irewg of men are en-gaKetl en-gaKetl In lifhinj? and cannlna;. The mail Meamahip Dora, plying to points nloiiR tlie Alnnka penliiHtila and Kodlak b land, reports that Mount KHimal'H outbrenk Ih terrible in it b violence. vio-lence. HeafeninK expliwUms occur at blioit iiiU-i'vali and the surroundins country i covered with thrae to four feet of hhIicb. The wave Indications In Shellkoff alraltK were mich as to lead the Dora's miiHter to fear that there hud been a general lifting of the ocean bottom near hore. For thla rouaon as well as because of amoke and aaheg, the iKira did not dare to approach Kodlak Katinal hua always been regarded na extinct. The natlvea have no tra (lit ion of any former activity of the mountain. |
