THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT ETNA
The eruption of Mount Etna is declared to be tbe most sudden and terrible ever beheld by the inhabitants of the surrounding country. Eleven craters are active. The central one disgorges only- smoke and ashes, but from three others huge stoics are thrown up a prodigious height. Tho lava etreams in some pwta arc 600 feet wide, and are flowing down the mountain side and through the fdriile^vaHevs, d<; - ;- troying the crops, and satting the wooes on five. The small towns of Nicolobl and Belpaiao are threatened with destruction,
and many of the inhabitants have fled. No lives seem to have been lost, but numbers of people «re homeless, the earthquake shocks having destroyed their houses, or the showerß of ashes and lapilli having obliged them to seek a refuge elsewhere.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5557, 27 July 1886, Page 3
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136THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT ETNA Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5557, 27 July 1886, Page 3
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