The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-05-08
A JLttkEsE EARTHQUAKE.
Terrific Eur.tinz If nature. Gigantic sub
tsfrxp.an Boiler.

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mighty cone Of -I,.,nt,,t..,, l,lo.,,,,
bodily into tie AIR. ,,ber,. u ov.rs,r.,d
the whole heavens with A va.t deu.a
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thick darkness. Ere tb..-.. Ga.i linn y,
fan back Ia tn. earth INN. r,,nr..1 for,b
dark clouds IF vatnr and -tt,-b sliding
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lures. Then l.af,in,. tarf,t,n. 40 irf.r,,.I
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boiling water Accommodated ny fearful
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bv a rr-l,iug ,yftirlv.iud nf Lurri..a,e
fore. ,urooting .,re,t tran. and b,,,li,..
them ;.f.,r
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forth tl,..Is If l,ili,,, Ii,.,ij ,,.,,i ,,.ii,I.
sw.rt down tLe ,no,intai,, -ij,. yyi,b. sncl,
r.4T al fI-.l.-
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the scaldin., torrent wa. ro.bin.. n,.,
tn. yllltp,. Of Nae,t.,l.t. ,,,, TIN. Lri,.t -
rh4 %a.,,se river L,ti,,-, t,.r.l..j ~,
miles from The. crater NOR. t-,,,i,lIv tb..u
any e1I,r,ss train prai,al,l,. much ~
hi. mil mud ,,.,s h,,rl..5 lir.,.t ,i,r,,,.,l,
thu. air a, c,.rt,,,I, tj,.. ,,itb H.,
many hundred. If million. If TN which
were own M AT fla. first evr.la.inn
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some sutterrauoan ti..nr4 tbr,.,,b v.l,icb
n treat volume Of water. suddenly ,o,,r,.d
into the internal fires ,euaratin, = SIN.
pondous volume Of steam which nnst
hayrcnntilue,lt 10 increase and 80 become
more and moro cntnnras.,J a. volcanic
fires AMI ,tlli,erran.:tn wafer, continued
their awful STRUGGLE. conv.rri,,., tho
foundation. Of the mountain intnac xcIn.
nom IoiI.r ,vIicl, fr.,ll,..,.,.l..J.I ,-i,t
the result a million times ,ia-nitisd If
the most awful bnil,.r ev,5,sinn ev.,
known tlny,. ,-round
The conclusions If the mountain rapt
great cha,m, from which u,r,,.. iats ~
flame. ashes and l,.ilin. water and many
of the ,yr,t,.h,.I IA, .ifi1,. v..r,..,,,.-l,,,,,
bv th,.,. awful fountains and I.ui.j 81,
hi,h with terrific fo,sa +, f.,ll t.,,.L, To-
earth all black4n,.,i a,i,I mimi, ,5.,---,l,4
these poor cort,,. w..r,. found cau.-i.t On
ia. bau,b, If tr,.,.. s,.,lI,.d.nd ,,.,,,l.J
b.vnrd recognition 1tb.r. v,,r. i,,.
tered and crushed by tin. r.d hot Stone.
and rocks which had l.,.u hurled from
the crater to the clouds and fell hack f.
earth with awful violence.
The er,lItion continued for mn tyo
hours. By 10 a. m lis violence was
srcnt. though for hours Afterwards the
ground trcllbled and duiver,.l. as well
it might after 50 appallu., a fir of mas.
sion. But in those two hour. the who'll.
face of thirty souar4 miles IF country lin
the form of vast fan extending to a
ra,liu, five miles from The central crater
WAS totally chanred OF the mountain
cone thus suddenly Transformed into a
steam boiler. thor. remain. NOW. only the
back; a ragged. overianriuc prcc;pi,e.
rising toa sheer hei.lt. yari1u,ly e.ti.
mated AT GOO ar uOo feet nb,v.4 a h,t.
tomles, crater of about a lnile in Diane.
Ter. Thence. with csa.-l.s, rnar ri.,
dense clouds of sutfncatiu.,. suInhurofs
steam. which sometimes e.. ar If sufli.
cicutlv 10 allow a,lyenturnu. climbers a
momentarv GLIMPSE of the ,e.tniuy mud
below. Tho,e who have assembled ,lat
remnant of the mountain from the slope
behind it, and 50 have reached the brink