Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-11-22
TBLEGRAPHIC.
NATURE IN CONFUSION,
SubltFraroln Forc,s Change Tho Coz
tours Of Mount RiIlieE
thermal Firss nnrst Forth with GREAT
yizar-tsco ia Ken UB
b. Earthquake,

SEATTLE. wash, Nov. al.-Mount
Rainier IL In a state OF mild eruption.
The appearance Of the aummit IL en-.
ufely changed, aud a now peak mas
appeared In its center. Soon after sun.
rise this morning, the ,ky aud air be.
Ing remarkably clear, clouds Of black
smoke were seen curling from the
eou,hgestetn part OF the peak, where
the crater IL heated, coming at inter.
walls OF about fifteen o. cInds.
The dume.like top nud disaIp AIRED
ami Been replaced by Hat top with
lsfge uTevAsse extending down the
AIDE. while IN tue center 4 its summit
anew peas had appeared on the n1f,h.
efn sidV. The snow was all gone n M
the summit o. thong melted un. FAli-
ing masses u rUUk, shipped VI thtit
white covering, could be- plainly dit-
orrntd. steam IL also tetn miIgiiug
with the smoke, which rises 100 feet
above the summit.
Mount Raiutuf ~ a c1ne-ahaptd peak
and stands slightly TO tno west VI tue
main Cascade range, sixty.tve miles
southeast Of Seattle. IL rises fully 0,OUn
feet alb We the range. IL has three era
t,is, Of when the principal AMI most
toriuut IN tue bCune Of the present VOL
cauio disturbances. THIS crater IL halt
y mile across, with walls Of rock nty
feet high, and thousands VI Jets OF hot
nlf And steam Issue from this rim. Tue
inside OF the crater IL filled with snow
ami ice, In which the smouldoriug
volcano anu steam Jets have formed
iunumefable oaves, one VI which has
been penetrated by explorers 10 depth
of one hundred ieet, while they have
USED the steam Jets for cooking.
IL Is supposed that tue walls Of the
crater, having teen gradually wens.
ened at the base, have ihlluu, leaving
peak composed OF tue rock on which
the snowy coae nhmedCOlumbianCfcst
mad formed, and that tnu Internal ffrs
thus freed have burst forth IN new
vigpr. The eruption bccamv hidden
~ clouds soon alter am.
TACOMA, Wash, Nov. Tonight,
exactly nj $3.50 O'Clock, several aught
shocks VI earthquake were felt here.
Windows were ratified throughout the
city. The nrst shock was most severe,
being accompanied by rumbling uoisof,
a. Of u distant explosion, ald aimuI.
taneouHly a sheet Ui 4 hme was observed
Ia the eastern heavens.
Inquiry tonight develops tho fact
that several persons here saw the
smoke arising from Mount Tao ma, or
Rainirr, this morning. Mrs. Lowell,
an Iowa lazy visiting friends, says she
taw al o'clock, Just before sunrise, a
EoUd.sizUd column VI smoke rising from
tue mountain top. lts color VIA cray.
Sue thought 10 rose TOO rapidly 10 bo a
CLOUD. Professor r.. e. Plummer, n
local scientist, who has made n special
study OF earthquake phonomena In the
NUrtawCal, stys;
"Oid hiaiou, the Oldest Indian on
tbs Puyallup reservation, said, through
an Interpreter, before tho Tacoma
Academy OF Science, on February D,
1898, that he had many times seen IRE
anu smoke coming out Of Mount Ia
coma. IhiH was when he was a boy.
General John q. Fremont reported on
November 10, lbi5, inst Mount Tacoma
was In eruption. According 60 Pro.
fossor Holden Of the Lick Observatory,
a violent eruption Of the mountain &C.
CURED October 10, 1873, ~ 4p. IN. In
May, 1850, volumes OF smoke were
observed issuing from the crater. Ga
June "a, 1851, lots Of steam were W.
served shOOtiug upward from the
m uutaln NJ Intervals Of One minute,
n aung eastward. steam was clntiu.
uhlly issuing from the ctaiot's peak q
volume varyln, with the height OF the
barometer,
al IL interesting 10 note" shys Pro.
trrst Plummer "that several OF the
planets, INCLUDING this earth, arc NJ pre-
cot In lice, fact which bears out the
theories OF Professor Alexis Percy aul
utuefs, that such conditions are favor
anle TO earthquakes aud volcanic phe-
numuna.
"rhoIo have been 30 far twenty.
two large earthquakes Throughout
thn world during the months of Oo,U-
Der and November Of the Present
year"