ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9066, 11 April 1906, Page 5

ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS.

GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. ASHES WhEUK A RAILWAY TRAIN. PROTECTION FOR POMPEII. VOLCANO'S ACTIVITY DIMINISHED. [press association.] (Received April 10, 10.45 p.m.) ROME, April 10. A rain of ashes from M r . Ottaiano destroyed tihe e&tates throughout the Sangni«ippe district. Pressure of sand on the roofs caused houses and a church at Sangiueippe to collapse. Two hundred perished. Fifty bodies have been recovered. Several fatalities occurred at Ottaiano. ■Some boys trod on a morass of cooling lava, and were engulfed. Ashes on the railway line at Porfcici derailed a train. Barricades have been erected to pnevent the Zava from reaching Pompeii. The King and Queen of Italy, at great personal risk, motored through the devastated villages, amidst a gale of whirling cancers and sand, and comforted the sufferers. The activity of the volcano is- diminishing, ».hut. the .discharge of .balls of fire and showjers.of sand continues. Black dust has descended ac far away as Miaijtejßejfrp. '< The, »rincipal crater of Vesuvius has sunk' 250 metres below its former level. NAVIGATION* IMPEDED BY DARKNESS. BUILDING OV t E|!\mGffEED WITH ABHES. MORE FATALITIES REPORTED^ ~BOME, ARril 10. Vesimsß hae ceased expelling rocks, but the emissions of sand have increased. Thick ctarfeness has almost stopped coastal navigation. Th« roof of Naples market hae collapa-, «d owing to' the 'weight of ashes. Seven' persons were kaied'and 70 injured.