Complex sentence: The first evidence of the eruption was a sprinkling of sand Quezaltenango, the wind then changed from the South to East and ashes began to fall at Helvetia, a coffee plantation six miles to the South-West.
Split into simpler sentences: The first evidence of the eruption was a sprinkling of sand on Quezaltenango. The wind then changed from the south to the east and ashes began to fall at Helvetia, a coffee plantation six miles to the South-West.