Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-08

I'LL tney pierce the cl0udleSS skies.
THE ISvALIDs' GRAVE.
But the little table-land below us on the left
what was that? We knew, but who shall tell it's
tale =? IL marked the site OF the medicinal hot
springs OF Snlno-no-yu, where q hamlet OF invalid
Visitors, forty or more In number, had been taking
the waters, and now springs and hamlet and visit.
ors lie buried under twenty feet OF mud and q few
foul puddles form their only monument and epi.
t tph light O'Clock In the morning OF a bright
guests taking their first daily bath; comparing
notes. no DOUBT as invalids do OF their respective
progress toward restored health; the awful rumb-
ling OF the earthquake; the explosion followed in
stantly 6y the darkness OF death as The cloud OF
ashes MIS- the air; one scream OF utter terror and
despair ana ere IL dies away the fall OF the sea OF
boiling mud; then everlasting silence There ia
no reason Tor examining them, and no human eve
VIII ever look upon them again 10 learn the details
vi then agony. We turn away, for IL Is impossible
10 watch these puddes nickering in the sun and 10
think OF the poor souls beneath and their awful re-
anl,ion oi dses irde-a day OF wrath surprising
ON TIE xUD-wAIL-
TO ma spot sui1iciently free from mud for us
to SIT down and open the tiffin-basket we had to
descend a few hundred yards Then we returned
10 the same spot and climbed cautiously over the
euge ana uown the slope, object being to reach
the top OF the mud-wall have described az being
on our right, and from behind which the steam
was Using irom tne crater itself The mud was In
mass OF It beneath-exactly, in fact like chonnv
sea suddenly soidifed. The walking, therefore. or
Surface
the mud treacherous BY chance when we had
descended far enough In straight line and turned
on 70 the right 70 climb 10 the wall
OF the crater, two OF US happened to be
In advance OF the rest. Slowly and cautiousiy
we approached the edge, testing the masses Of mud
before US at every step. AT last side by side and
on our hands and knees, we looked over the mud
wall upon the edge OF which we Stood sank straight
down out OF sight into the depths OF the abyss and
actually sheiyed In underneath us so that we were
suspended over the seething crater upon no sun
port stronger than oyerhanging mud, neither solid
nor tenacious Needless 10 say that after q single
brief look We beat gingeriy but hasty retreat
And none too soon, for there between US and the
rest OF the party was long crack several inches
wide. But that minutes look win never be for
gotten by either OF US For q thousand feet the
mud precipiee rose straight up to our feet; the
crater from which ft sprang was probably mile
wide; from dozen half-visible openings the steam
was issuing with the noise OF distant water
fall while the chief 0rce OF the crater was altoQe-
Their hidden by the cloud OF steam above it; and
whenever the vapor was disstpated for moment
we could see the liquid mud &C the bottom, ap-
parantly stu seething ia great disturbance and
commotlon. The colossal scale OF tt all, the more
than Alpine precipice, the ocean OF mud, the
buried village, the neat the steam, the noise, the
attempt 70 picture In imagination the scene when
the earth had been thus burst and r1ven and scat