VOLCANIC ACTIVITY
SEWARD (Alaska), June 11. Kodiak Island is covered a foot deep with volcanic ash. The people's plight is pitiable. They are without both food and drinking water, •but go far there ai*« no deaths. A United States revenue cutter has been despatched to afford aid to the Btricken population. NEW YORK, June 12. Reports from Seward state that the volcanic disturbances destroyed three native villages, involving the loss of 200 lives. Loss of life is also probable on Afognak Island. OTTAWA, June 13. A wireless message from the revenue cutter at Kodiak Island reports that no Kves were lost as a Tesult of the volcanic eruption. June 15. Terror-stricken. Indians are flocking to the coast from the volcanic regions of Alaska. Reports state that there is a considerable death roll. In some of the villages there are some feet of ashes. The canneries have been compelled to stop as the water is clogged by ashes.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3040, 19 June 1912, Page 26
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