Show GREAT VOLCANO THREATENS ERUPTION the goddess pele hawaiian of volcanoes who early this week stirred her fires in long dormant craters is brewing a terrible broth in her giant fire vaults under the lava cones which at any moment she may pour out upon the country about her such at any rate is the forecast of professor T A jaggar who for years has studied moods 1 I believe madame pele means mischief professor jaggar said today 1 I am hourly expecting momentous events the eruption he said may rival or even surpass the great outbreak of 1840 when the districts about the seaside villages of kapoho kalapana Ka lapana and kalau kaimu were inundated with lava professor jaggars Jag garg prediction was based upon the collapse last monday of the Male maumau pit in the kil abea crater by the sudden draining out of the molten lava with resultant breaking down of the upper walls of the pit and the numerous earth tremors recorded at the volcano observatory events of the last few days are a repetition in exact sequence professor jaggar said of the activity that preceded the 1840 eruption when lava from haleamau mau drained away toward the craters of and on the great rift system extending along the coast in the regions of kapoho and kalapana Ka lapana this was the alie phenomenon which this week restored the Makao phi crater to activity for the first time since 1840 and which at the same time subdued the hale maumau fire pit the tremors registered gist ered show intense actie activity ity along this line of the lava flow the can said |