The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-01
More Thrilling Details OF the Eruption
of VeSuyiuS.

The London Times correspondent
writing from Naples, April 29th, gives
a still more startling and thrilling de-
scription of the eruption of Nesuvius.
He says, so awfully a sublime sight as
Vesuvius presented and still presents,
it is impossible for the mind to con-
ceive. On the night of the 25th and
Doth some friends who were III Atrio
Delcavallo, and gazing on the stream
of lava which was gushing out toward
the north, were appalled, by a heavy
rumbling sound, which sent them fly
ing, and soon afterwards there was a
g noise as of many waters" rushing
down with impetuous violence. Anoth-
er mouth had opened, and lava, tumb-
ling headlong over the most precipitous
part of the mountain, threatened to
sweep everything and every one before
it. A short time after, the whole noun
tain was on fire. Black spots, which
marked division between the principal
mouths, were no longer visible. These
partitions had given way, and one
huge mass of flame rose tortuous
up to the heavens, while rivers
of liquid fire were rushing dOwnwards.
In Naples the ground trembled be-
meath the feet. Water in large vessels
was marked by undulations on the sur
face. Many houses which have suf-
fered from continual shocks had to be
propped up by poles, Smoke and mist
formed cloud like a gigantic cauli-
flower. 1t was marked by a thousand
involutions. Official reports give the
number of victims at 800. \ consider
able number OF persons, no doubt, fell
sacrifices to curiosity, Friday morning,
when burning fountains of the deep
were opened. when a living fire broke
forth impetuousiy, and pursued and
overlook many a poor wretch. They
were brought into hospitals as soon as
they We're found, some roasted, some
skinned from head to foot and this
sad work continued at intervals through
out the day. The very nails of one
were pendant with the skin, says a
medical friend and one man [ was
obliged to leave on the mountain, who
was dying, and must now be a cinder.
Most of these have died There were
many, however, who were buried be-
meath lava. From ten TO fifteen peas
ants, who were cutting wood between
SoEma and NCsuvIus, We're swallowed
up by the deluge, and forty persons
were destroyed in like manner at San
Sebastiano, small town of 1000 In
habitants, on the western side of the
mountain. On seeing the lava APP
proach, they assembled belfry, but
another stream surrounded it, and it
fell, and all were lost Naples was, and
is. something like London IN Novem-
Der fog, and what have seen and felt
enables me TO realize the fate which
befel Pompeii We are all compelled
to use umbrellas as a protection from
the dust. 1t falls in thick and heavy
shower Not only has the land been
shaken, but the sea as well. RumblIng,
followed by loud roaring, has been in
cessant during the whole night. This
morning the volcanic energy of Vesu-
vius is even greater than yesterday, and
the color of the dust is black. They
are sweeping it up in piles in the
streets and on the tops of the houses,
for it threatens rain and woe betide the
wells. At every six or seven PAGES one
meets with pile of this dust, of which
iron forms the principal element; but
the binding shower comes down afresh,
and renders the scavenger's labors use
less Many of the English are hurry
ing away, panic struck, for Nosuvius
roars more ferociously than ever, and
not merely my window, but my room,
trembles.