THE LAST DAY OF POMPEII.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 145, 11 August 1911, Page 8

THE LAST DAY OF POMPEII.

A RICH LADY AND HER JEWELS la the year 79 A.I), the Italian city of Pompeii was buried under a torrent of lava, cinders, and red-hot ashes, issuing from the crater of the mighty volcano Vesuvius. For three days md nights the awful storm of lire continued. The other week the world was given a startling reminder of tho horror ot that far-away tragedy. During the course of the excavations which are constantly unearthing new parts of tho buried city, tiie diggers came upon the body of a woman, reduced to the form of a fossil, 'i hero the body lay where it had fallen, more than eighteen centuries ago. She was evidently a very rich lady, and her jewels were lightly clasped iu her hands. She had sought to carry them away with her in her flight, hut the scorching blast from the volcano caught her, and she fell dead, and the lava welling over her converted aor body into a statute. For eighteen centuries the dead hands have clutched tho jewels for which, perhaps. the Roman lady sacrificed her•jolf. They are the finest jewels yet discovered in Pompeii.