Show LASSEN PEAK J RUMBLES AND A SCARES FOLKS REDDING Cal April 21 Las Lassen Las sen Pen sen Peak Peal Americas America only active olea no spoke In a deeo 1 rumbling voice and exhaled great smoke clouds just Jut before dark last e and today further word or of the awakened crater vos wa as await await- awaited awaited awaited ed with some anxiety As dusk settled over the alley below It the thu peak began beean breath breath- breathIng breathing Inc breath Ing out the tho smoke In intermittent gusts ts as a If It aided by powerful bet bet- bel bellows lows los a 0 distance It was seen seca that a 0 a smoke line had bad been formed extending south ard for about 20 miles I there here were wre unconfirmed reports here during the th night that a show shower er pr of or hot rocks had ben b en thrown down Iown the sides side of or Lu sen Peak P and scattered about Its base It was feared early arly toda I the reports to bo true tru that the of ot several settlements was wa I threatened The rum rumbling noise nol e Inside th the tho crater were described as the th loudest since sine the volcano broke a of ot centuries and I erupted on Decoration day 1914 On May 21 n 1916 1 1 an eruption hurtled lava laa rocks rocko rock with such uch force Corce that se eral building were destroyed destroyed de- de troyed Residents of the th tied fled and scores of ot cattle catti were d dIn In 1914 1114 and 1916 1915 one on hundred eruptions most mot of them slight anti and harmless were recorded The Tho Th last la manifestation of ot activity was wai on March 10 of this year 00 go |