TOWN MENACED.
MOUNT ETNA ACTIVE. Lava Streams Six Miles Long. TOWNS EVACUATED. FORESTS DEVASTATED. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn). ROME, November 4. Following heavy rain storms. Mount Etna has become ae'ivc from a crater of 6500 feet, made by the 1865 erupI ion. A lava stream, a mile wide, is advancing on lhe village of Saint Alfeo. devastating forests en route, centuryold trees flaring up like matchwood Isolated farms on the mountain side have been evacuated, and the inhabiants of the threatened village are ready to flee momentarily. , * LATER. ‘Jna s lava stream is now six miles "'>g. Tho whole two thousand inhabitants have evacuated Saint Alfeo THE LAVA STREAMS. (R reived Nov. 5 at 11.10 , ROME, November 4. The town of Fontanazzo, with iw. thousand inhabitants is threatened with destruction by a. lav.a stream eleven kilometres wide, which is advancing at the rate o£ two hum'.r d yards an hour.
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Grey River Argus, 6 November 1928, Page 5
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150TOWN MENACED. Grey River Argus, 6 November 1928, Page 5
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