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Show LAVAFLOOD Drives People From Ther Homes on Mount Etna Catania, Sicily, SepL 14. Tho 30,-000 30,-000 Inhabitants of Castlgllone and Francavllla turned their backs on their homes today, fleeing before the advancing flood of lava from Mount Elqa. Both towns are threatened trith destruction. Tho discharge from the crater and new fissures increases in volume. The main stream, pouring down the northeastern north-eastern side of the volcano, has made its way sluggishly about and over the foothills toward the base, crossed the railway and Invaded the vallov of tho Alcantara. Today the front, fifty leet high and a third of a mile wide, broke over a long declivity and, gathering gath-ering velocity, forced the peasant dwqllers In Its path to make n hurried hur-ried escape. It cut off tho water sup-?lv sup-?lv of several villages. When the stream was within three miles of Castlgllone and Francavlllc the people collected their portable property and made for the higher places. oo |