S. AMERICAN VOLCANOES

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 April 1932, Page 7

S. AMERICAN VOLCANOES

ASHES COAT PLAINS.

[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]

(Received April 14, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 13.

“The Times’s” Buenos Aires correspondent says: Rain and ashes from the Andean volcanoes ceased to-day, almost as abruptly as they began on Sunday, after covering the Argentine pampas with a snowlike blanket, inches deep, for seven hundred miles, over a strip foui’ hundred miles wids. Dozens or more volcanoes in eruption, quieted sufficiently for the regular air service to Chile to resume. No deaths from, eruption have been reported thus far, and opinion varies as to whether the ashes will prove to /have a harmful effect on the health of the cattle. It is believed to depend bn the early rains s to wash out, and . Revivify the pastures.. It is the (ploughing season now, and it is expected that when ploughed under, the ashes will prove highly beneficial, due to the potash contents. Fears in the town of Mendoza of asphyxiating gases, which would necessitate evacuation, have subsided. SANTIAGO (Chile), April 13. It is reported that the dust ashes ceased falling. The Associated Press correspondent at Buenos Aires reports: “Conservat|ive seismologists here are inclined to belive that the volcanic activity -was more frightening than actually dangerous.”