Show THE TERROR vivid description of grout gnip tiou ilon which rivals pom destruction the famous italian novelist marion crawford Crawf oril tells of tho alic terrors of the jig illg volcano ff history isto ry of former Crupt eruptions ions the whole world looked on awe struck at the recent fierce outbreak of stupendous aud and devastating four force in the tha bay of naples the eruption of mount vesuvius Is believed to bo be tile most destructive since the days ot of poin pell A U D 79 tho whole etory of oc the eruption of 1900 Is it 11 sorrowful talo 0 of stricken victims devastated vineyards ruined mined homes and ana terror stricken flying hi ing people and it is hard to realize that tile the sanio same scenes havo been enacted there so bo many times before pliny the noted ancient historian described tho eruption of vesuvius in ta tho 0 year 79 lit in a series of letters to Taci tacitus tills its letter described a dark cloud rising lit in a single pillar from tile the crater of 01 tile the mountain tain and from tills this a colu column nill spread and upon it rested it a great roof built by invisible carpenters li esting ever on in its single pillar like it t great mushroom tills this loot ioor shut out tile sky froni nil all choso wide aides extending sixteen miles away the light aslies ashes of tile fire from descended like amow upon Poi burying it to great depths langtim was drowned lit in it sea aea of volcanic mail those who have read tile letters of pliny find similarity in tile the dv written by the noted novelist million crawford Craw foid there Is probably illy no other american living who is ii so au well vell ai ac quain quainter teI with alth conditions as alwy exist in it italy lie ile lias has taken up tit liis lit per marivia mani ail abode in I 1 tie hio idallan hills hillh the allm C I 1 v W 41 4 VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION life customs and mannerisms of the ilio italian have been pictured by him in stories fc which havo have made him famous in its hla cabled description to the now new york times crawford stated that the recent eruption ot of vesuvius had been grumbling for many weeks before tile the outbreak which lid did tho the incalculable damage smoke two miles high an enor enormous moua volume of black blacic smoke rises to a height of two miles above tho the crater he wrote incandescent masses of stone are thrown up feet A continuous southeasterly wind carries ahn ashes over naples which la IS so completely enveloped in darkness that for three lays days our communications by sea havo have been cut off fissures havo have opened far below the cone editing many st streams str cams reanis of lava one of which has completely destroyed desti oyed the town of which hail had inhabitants another has reached rencil ed tho the outskirts ot or torre del greco others havo have destroyed thousands of acres of fertile cultivated land with farmhouses and stock tile the groat cone of vesuvius collapsed with awful thundering and flames and tile tho bablo railway the observatory atory and tho the largo chotei near it were all totally destroyed tile the laa ita carried vast masses of burnt stone and sulphur on its surface like dross on melted lead and nothing was aa visible toward but endless acres of lark dark scoriae broken here and there by tho the gic enish cm curling ling smoke 0 of sulphur at one point we found it a groat great pine tree torn up by its roots and turned to black charcoal tile the air was almost the heat beat intense ali faces of the people who crowded upon the edgo edge of the arrested stream c ex pressed terror of exhaustion from rr rl cent panic feeble attempts of man alan useless when the stream of fire threatened threaten boscotrecase soldiers ting dug a wide ditch across its patch in the hope of divert ing its course but the molten stream st reini advanced like a colos colossal lial serpent of fire turning its head to the right and luft as a snake does but keeping its ita general direction toward the fated to town wil it was not till it reached tile the first sending up ill great showers of sparks that tho the people mally tied fled for lives 1 I saw men women and children all and infants whose mothers carriell carried them went at M the breast or in their aprons dogs doga too and cats were on oil the carts and sometimes even chickens tied e r by the legs and plies piles of mattresses and pillows all white with dust under tile lurid glare we ourselves could hardly breathe this dispatch corresponds exactly in detail to letters tim the same flaming mountain and shaking earth the same stifling smoke and ashes the same terrifying darkness dark nesa and the same helpless distracted crowd stretching vain hands to their gods for succor originally vesuvius was in the form of a single cono later eruptions iivo lava broken down clown tile tho southern side blue of the original crater leaving the northern semicircle semi cirrie circle which Is called monte somma A smaller central cone had grown up within the ancient ruin it la Is this inner cone that had its top blown oft off before tho the recent eruption the height ot of the mountain was about feet lit ill prehistoric lays vesuvius was probably twice as high the top having been blown off centuries before the that destroyed since the year ear 1031 1631 vesuvius lina lifts never been wholly at rest in that year lives were cie lost tile alio clouds of steam that cattle from the rush of water ater into the hot mass below the surface cond condensed eased and fell in a boiling rain that scorched with which it ramo came in contin tact t tile tho very sea drew back tile tho skirts of its dark blue robe and then thell swept forward far old tho rho laut last of the great convulsions be boio for tile the recent lecent ono occurred in 1872 then 1110 like tills this one there was a great lava flow together with throwing up tip of burning rock anil and the fall all of ashes spoil the lie surrounding rounding Bur country vesuvius Js Is ono one of it a group of sli nilar mountains in the mediterranean sen sea its comrades being etna tind tano which aleli last gave the nano to all mountains of till this kill kind 1 T that a lii turn was vaa called after vulcan the gil who mado made the annor for foi the fighting deities of tile ancient 1111 lent world and ami forged fo ifil tile tho very thunderbolts bolts of jovo jove ills his workshop was under mount lount 1 liia 1 I hero tile inhabitants or of tho tit heard him shaping great massei mashi i of lion iron with ills terrible lia nimer while tile tho nameless slaves of the forge foige danily imagined of that old tiny day blow tho the gi gigantic gantle bellows be lloa and hold great bars bais lit in place while tile tho master worked the greeks with oven even thiis learning loa ining lid did not 0 into tile adon title reasons resi aona for tile tho mighty littzi ings of tile tho mountain they know knew what tit tin awful roar of those volcanic meant and our wise men with their and books know now little of what la Is going on oil in fit tho the flery caverns voina under tho earths caitha thin crust nature anturo soon sears bears already wo we are told tit in dispatches spots allots of green have alp appeared Pared on the blackened sides of mount belee pelee and it will not be ba very long buforo before the olive and tile vino vine and tile clustering villages will find their way lack back again to tile alia slopes of 0 vesuvius |