THE ERUPTION IN THE PHILIPPINES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9816, 27 August 1897, Page 5

THE ERUPTION IN THE PHILIPPINES.

FURTHER DETAILS,

THE CRATER A BURNING MASS.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

Sydney, August 26.

Farther details of the eruption in the Philipines show that so violent was the outbreak that the lava reached the sea, twenty miles from the crater, Iα the village of Baccay many houses were buried under the avalanches of ashes and sand. In the important town of Tobaco a large fissure was opened, whilst total darkness prevailed, and the inhabitants were obliged to hermetically seal the doors and -windows. The roads from Legaspi have been destroyed, together with the hamlets of ban Antonio and San Isidro, belonging to the town of Ltbog, whose inhabitants took refuge in the mountains, 115 of them being buried in the ruina. All the hemp plantations and fields under cultivation and cattle were destroyed. The following hamlets wets annihilated :—Santo Nifio, San Bogne and Misoricordia, together with 200" inhabitants. The houses were completely buried, and at night the aspect of the burning mountain was awful. The crater was one burning mass, whilst the flames and enormous redhot stones were shot high into the air. Showers of ashes and sand reached Nueva Caceres, fifty miles away.