MT. ETNA.
POURING FORTH LAVA
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF VIL-
LAGES
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH CQPYRICnT
PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Rome, March 24. M-t. Etna is in eruption. The craters arc now throwiv- out lava, which threatens several villages. The lava from four craters joined and made a stream 1500 feet' wide and 12 feet deep, and is descending at the rate of half a mile hourly. The lava has destroyed the villages <>i' Capiolo and Barello and is threatening Belpasso.
The inhabitants are placing sacred relics in front of their houses.
Twenty-three shocks were -registered at Mt. Etna observatory in eight hours.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1143, 26 March 1910, Page 4
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