VIOLENT ERUPTION
DAMAGE BY VESUVIUS By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright ROME, Saturday. Mount Vesuvious yesterday was in a state of violenty active eruption. A cone burst out out on the western side and emitted a stream of incandescent lava. The wooden steps leading into the creter were burned and many observatory instruments were engulfed. The cone is now subsiding.—A. and N. Z. —Sun
Vesuvius, a volcanic mountain about 4,000 feet high, ten miles from Naples, has been more or less active since August 24, 719 A.D., on which far-off! date an eruption blew off the top of the mountain and buried Pompeii under ashes and Herculaneum under a torrent of mud. Subsequent explosions occurred at later dates, and in xhe year 472 the ashes from it reached Constantinople. In that year 18,000 people perished. Other violent eruptions occurred in 1631, 1794. 1861 and 1996. In modern times the Funicula railways takes tourists to the crater, while a the base of the burning mountain? which is 30 miles round, grapes are grown lrom famous vines.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 111, 1 August 1927, Page 1
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