Show VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION AS SEEN BY A correspondent roan april 3 the present actie tty of Veu which began about four ago is very finely described in the nadwa mattino by a writer who made lil way mountain Us far as pos to get a view of the eruption ife was able to dome distance by the c lecleric although hie barnaze shook violently auli the treni blinK of the volcano and then bedini bed to what ho ach tho beyond t ars frs arta 3 winch oia guidea would not let him go we wera hera ur rounded writes thi by innumerable col was 0 dense and steam achot up froin crocka in the earth and roae in long spiral to loae themselves in the iopu above from the volcano lc caime rapail following each other induct jao vapidly as to con from tho a bove us a perfect mountain of smoke arose from time to time spreading itself out like a pine tree and falling back towards pompeii with this there came a dense shower of fireballs stones and scoria shot up straight into the air and then rolling down the mountain sides in thousands of flaming laag indents at ten minutes to four an unusually loud rumbling announced a new outburst an enormous pine tree of smoke ayi sent 1200 feet up into the air and tell back on the mountain top in millions of little curla of smoke one of my companions told me that the density of this explosion could only be accounted for by a landslip of a small pail of the crater the correspondent then describes how a fortnight before his ascent vesuvius had bc gunto rumble and throw out showers af ashes four days later the explosions became like great claps abid alic ashes changed to incandescent lava which aras thrown up to a great height and alien fell into tho crater alic upper parta of which it lias now completely filled these spouts aff liiva were terribly beautiful to sec and alie top of the mountain looked as if it beio crowned with long rays of fire between the lava came showers of stones and tho rumbling and explosions became bovio lent that it was feared that a new and tc riou of tho eruption was beginning but gradually the noise showers diminished till chev suddenly increased again with great violence last week the guides who are accustomed to the volcano say that is to bo feared from the present cr upion coni parable with what happened in 1900 when the roof of one of the electric railway stations was brokenly bro kenby a stone from the crater no foreigners or unauthorized persons however are allowed further up than the lower slopes of tho volcano |