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Show More Than One Hundred Hun-dred in Volcano District Dis-trict Cared For Seward, Alaska, June IS. More than 100 refugees have been taken from the mainland districts laid waste by the eruption of Katmal volcano nnd are being sheltered on Kodiak island, according to word received hereto-day. hereto-day. A tugboat, with a Russian priest as a guide, has gone In search for more refugees who are known to bo In destitute circumstances In the ruined villages. Recent heavy rains have settled the ashes and a crust varying fn thickness thick-ness from one to three feet is forming, form-ing, turning the once fertile soil ol the ash-covered district into a barren waste. It io believed that it will be necessary neces-sary to remove all the people and livestock from the volcano zone, as It will be many years before the lanJ can be made productive again. Most of the buildings at the town of Kodiak are intact and the people are getting settled. The cannery station at Uylak, Kar-luk, Kar-luk, Naknek, Nushagak and other fishing fish-ing centers report that operations have been suspended temporarily because be-cause there Is ash in the water and the salmon have stopped running. The wireless force formerly employed em-ployed at tho Kodiak station," which was destroyed, will be taken aboard the naval collier Nero, which' is at Unalaska. |