VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8308, 11 December 1906, Page 5

VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION.

(Per Mail Steamer Sierra), NAPLES, November 10. At noon to day Mount Vesuvius and the surrounding villages were shaken up by a kind of earthqaake, which was accompanied by detonations, each followed by a considerable fall' of ashes, especially over Ottaj9no, which was destroyed during the eruption of last April, and which Is now in course of reconstruction. The phenomenon caused great alarm. Investigation showed that a part of the crater of the volcano nad fallen in. During . the afternoon there were three more slight shocks in the Vosoviau region, and a further disoharge uf ashes, which were blown in the direction of Pompeii and Ottajano. ■ Thus far, Naples has not been affected by the eruption, although a dark oolamnf'uf smoke can be seen from this city hovering over the \ crater. Professor Director of the Koyal Observatory on Mount Vesuvine, in an interview, said: "I do not believe this is a new ntuption, a 4 all phenomena preceding such an event are lacking, i think the rain of ashes was caused by the slipping dawn of tho superior lip of the crater, and that the earth tremblings were due to water from recent heavy rains having reached the fire zone inside the volcano, producing an internal explosion."

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