Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-06-25
SOME VOLCANO HISTORY.
Terrific UpheavaIs from Subterra.
mean Fires That Have S1um-
bered for Many Years.

logical disturbances have in the past
caused an enormous loss of life, says
q scientific paper.
During the existence of this world
many important geographical changes
have been made through this natural
phenomena.
Scientists have found traces OF
this in many quarters of the globe,
where there have been no heavy
earthquakes or volcanic eruptions fol
ages and ages.
Volcanoes range in size from a
diminutive cone to huge mountain
In both cases they are formed from
material which has been belched
forth from the earth's interior.
They can break through any kind
of geological formation, and have
rome through granite of immense
depth, and also through silurian rock,
such instances of their awful power
being demonstrated by extinct vol
canoes that have been discovered in
France and Scotland.
Those known as Etna and Vesuvius
emerged from beneath soft marine
strata.
They are generally classed as &C.
tive, dormant, and extinct. In many
eases, however, it is impossible to
distinguish the latter two, and many
that have remained quiescent for
hundreds of centuries have been
known to suddenly break forth in
the most violent manner.
hiot,
after being dormant almost beyond
time immemorial, became active in
the first century of the Christian era
and ultimately produced Vesuvius.
The latter, in 70 A. D.. vomited
forth lava and deadly gases in such
gigantic volume and SO rapidly that
the inhabitants of the city of Pom
peii and several other adjacent towns
we're destroyed as were the people
IF ST. Pierre.
But Pelee, the volcano which so
quickly ended ST. Pierre and it's pee
pie, was another one which was al
ways considered extinct.
Mount Epomeo, on the island OF
lschia, furnishes another illustration
Of the uncertainties of these dread
creatures of the earth's hidden mys.
terles. 1t remained dormant fol-
about II centuries and then, in 1902,
burst forth with the utmost violence
In operation a volcano emits gases,
Tapors, ashes, powders and lava.
Sometimes the acids are as destruc-
| tive to life as are the lava and ashes.
The crater of Idjen, a volcano in
lava, turned loose huge lake of acid
water, which rushed down the noun
tain side, and the poisonous proper
lies of the liquid caused widespread
destruction among human beings, cat
lie and birds.
The ashes sent forth by volcano
ire generally so fine that they will
penetrate house through the smallest
tracks and crevices. They are gen
orally SO hot that the inhalation of the
mallest amount will cause death.
Ashes have been known to fall over
country covering a radius within
| go miles of the volcano from which
hey were discharged. That occurred
when Vesuvius broke loose in 1922.
On another occasion, when the
'osequina volcano in Nicaragua became
ruptlve in 1885, utter darkness pre-
allied within circle of 35 miles, and
light miles away ashes covered the
round to depth Of ten feet. -Four
lays later some of the ashes, which
lad been caught in an upper-air cur
ent, fell at Kingston, Jamaica, zoe
niles away.
Huge stones have been sent hurting
through space for great distances by
'olcanoes in violent activity. Many
we're found in the ashes which buried
Pompeii.
A volcano at Antueo, Chill, is said to
have sent stones SO miles, and Coto.
paM is said to have hurled 2OO-pound
bowlder nine miles.
Molten lava can rush down a noun.
;alnslde at faster rate than a mile
an hour.
After it stops flowing a crust will
torn over the top of the bed, which
becomes hard and cool, while the BODY
Of it will retain fiery heat for years
When Mauna Loa, the terror-creat.
ing volcano of Hawaii, had it's awful
eruption in 1852, it belched forth a
solid fountain of lava, which was .oO(
feet wide and spouted 900 feet into the
| iir.
Other fiery fountains of the same
country have been known to perform
similar feats and have continued to