VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS.
LARGE LOSS OF LIFE IN GUATEMALA. - [PBES3 ASSOCIATION.] NEW YORK, 17th November. Advices from Guatemala, city state tha' hundreds of people perished at Santa Maria- by the recent eruption Ashes reached thft housetops on neighbouring estates, and the sea was coated for miles. The losses in coffee are estimated at over five million dollars (£1,000,000). Many of the owners are Germans The new cone in^the centre of the crater of Mont Pelee, Martinique, has grown to a hundred metres (328 ft) in height in a month.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 121, 18 November 1902, Page 5
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