Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-06-01
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Ibe cart they fell Oh was o,raoa..
furnace het, and fresh waves of fiano at
TOOK thea ere tney could rise oaa;,, ofe,'
few wey miraculously Galivnrod "Sa'n. "A
efforts m the part of the stny W noble
men of he company. Draggi.n g.nerved
haste towards the observatory, ihesiifie N III |
crers placed them IN The ro-.'ovo !
whien we,e waiting thrc, and accoInmo
dation was provided fC them at Kesina,
l have boen told by tiend, who was at
the very edge of the clasm when 1T burst
open, that the effect on the Imagination
was as though tho whole mountain had
begun to move from its base. AS he tied
he felt as II the mountain W. ioiiowins
him, and moi until lac bad recovered his
senses at Resna could he convince HIM
self that whathe had seen was only par
tial eruption f the crust which overlies
the hidden fires of Vcsuvius. An account
which has been fdrnshcd 20 n Neapolitan
journal atlirms that there were two stimuli
hneous openings and that flames bursting
or from both en'eloped in q circle of fire
all who were within reach. n carriage
which happened o be inside the circle was
| burnt up in an ilstant, as if it had been
spirited away. Shortly before the eruption
| lady was seen il it, but of her nothing
whatever has beei heard since. The burns
| inflicted were of peculiarly painful CHAR
actcr, even when they looked slight. The
patients on reaching the hospitals Were
Immediately ,ihveloped in wool. Not
have beer dressed, and the skill with which
thev re nurscd, they cannot move without
endunny agony which compels them to
screan1.
SCENES IN NAPLES.
The mayor of Resina acted with energy
and fOrcthought from the moment that he
heard of the accident. Having seen TO the
medical arrangements that were necessary,
he teegraphcd to The project for troops to
aid the police in maintaining order. Ma
pies could spare hm enough, for it WAS
not in u mood to require military watching.
OF all the contrasts | have ever witnessed
in actual live that which the Neapolitans
exhibited between Thursday night and
Friday morning was the meet astounding.
L had left them half an hour before the
catastrophe occurred, when they were draw
ing to n close their third nights ecstacy
over the grandeur of the Moloch whom 10
the last they will admire more than dread.
The flames Of the lava, which were being
vomted from the single crater, had sunk
till they appeared like an aureoe on the
summit Of the cone. Every street COM
manding view of the mountain was
thronged with spectators. / did not pass
one which was not as silent rs the night
itself If nothing else in the world can,
Nesuvius solemnlzes the signori aud laz-
zoroni alike Of Naples. 1t bushes them in-
to reverence, and fills them with indefinite.
unutterable terrors. When, after II few
h9HFais changed. hiHe la;zaz:aroni az a: were % T.o d;.
putting, jabbering and restilntinr, Accord.
ing to their everyday custom.
1t was only about tho new crater at the
observatory and the number OF the Curlii
who had fallen into the gulf. One authori-
ty insisted that it could not be more than
200, another declared that it was at least
twice that, and third had good intorma-
ton which made the total close on 200.
My own inquiries among the witnesses,
tested by what has been asccrtained by the
authorities, me to telegraph to you an es-
innate of sixty or seventy, and that is the
figure most commonly believed at present.
| am happy 10 be able to say with CONT
dencc that none of our foreign visitors arc
among the missing. My first business on
learning the supposed extent of the NOR
taiity was to visit each of the fourteen Eng
lish and American hotels in Naples. Out
of nearly 600 strangers at present occupy
ing theia, not one failed on Friday morn
ing. Many had been up to the observato-
ry during the previous night, and even
upon the very site of the new crater, but
an early return home delivered them from
an unsuspccted danger. Throughout Fri
day CONSERVATION reigued in Naples. The
lirst touch of peril had prepared all minds
to expect the worst. Ecsuvius gave in
various ways sufficient occasion for increas-
ed alarm. The booming aud rumb!ing of
the underground artillery sounded as close
as if it were beneath our feet.
The flow Of lava had increased. and two
enormous streams were rolling towards the
sea as if they would sweep away half q
dozen villages in their course. Windows
ratified, and the strongest houses trembled
to their foundations. The smoke rising
! from the crater was now mingled with vol
umcs of suphurous yapor, and blackencd
! by the ashes it carried in its furious ascent.
/ There was far more danger in the scoriGe
! than in the lava for they were confined to
no channel. Scattering themselves wher-
ever the prevailing winds carried them
which was, happily, not in the direction OF
| Naplcs-they became tirebrands for the de-
! struction ol houses, vineyards, forests, and
every form of combustible property. On
Friday night Naples was a degree lower in
| IT'S lN'NulNS llS
bourse had been closed all day. No one
attempted to think Of anything but the aw'
full noises under foot, aud the confasratior
which was spreading among the villages
! lying at the mercy of the volcano. Poor
San Se5astino was nearly reduced to ashes
and its twelve hundred inhabitants had &c
seek refuge nearer the coast whittier the
lava and ashes were fast following them.
After niGhtiall, when the VOLCANIC "?s d
the artificial fires got a.inSleu toSeLher ~
a Putonian landscape, it was thought in
Naples that all the towns bordering on the
bay, Portci, Recina, Tore del Groco and
Tore del Annunciata, were in flames TO-
gethcr. The apprehension was fortunate
w overdrawn. What deceived us was the
glare of no less than nine craters, all smo
king simultaneously.
One Of the compositors in this office onct
/ maui to Mr. Erpeler IN asE lig innupncl