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Show ERUPTION Sixteen Nevy Fissures Pouring Lava Through Catania, Sicily. SepL 12. Tho activity ac-tivity of Mount Etna showing sixteen new fissures, Is causing alarm here. At the baso of tho volcano a great stream issued yesterday, moving at the rate of 1,250 feet an hour and today had covered Beveral miles toward" to-ward" Linguaglossa, northeast of Etna. Lingualossa and Randazzo, to tho northwest, are on elevations and are not threatened by the flow of lava, through storms of ashes beat on them. The residents, however, are panic-stricken panic-stricken and some have deserted tho towns. Earth shocks continue. ' The river ot lava nos lnvaoea mo centuries-old forests of larch and pine and appears about todestroy the beautiful vineyards and nut woods. It Ib expected soon to reach the railway rail-way line circling Mount Etna at a point between Linguaglossa and Ran- |