The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-12
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the form of a gigantic pine tree: the
trunk, blackness-the branches, fire.
a fire that shifted and wavered in its
hues with every moment, now f1ercely
luminous, now of a dull and dying red,
that again blazed terrifically forth with
intOlerable glare!
Then there arose on high the univer-
sal shrieks of women; the men stared
at each other, but were dumb. At that
moment they felt the earth shake be-
meath their feet; and beyond in the
distance, they heard the crash of fall
ing roofs; an instant more, and the
mountain-cloud seemed to roll toward
them, dark and rapid, like a torrent;
at the same time 1t cast forth from its
bosom a shower of ashes mixed with
vast fragments of burning stone! Over
the crushing vines--over the desolate
streets over the amphitheatre itself
far and wide-with many a mighty
splash on the agitated sea-fell that
awful shower!
Each turned to fiy-each dashing,
pressing, crushing against the other.
Trampling recklessly over the fallen
amidst groans, and oaths, and prayers,
and sudden shrieks, the enormous
crowd vomited itself forth. Whittier
| second earthquake, FASTENED to their
homes to load themselves with their
most costly goods and escape while it
was yet time; others, dreading the
showers of ashes. that fell fast. torrent
upon torrent, over the streets, rushed
under the roofs of the nearest houses,
or temples, or sheds-shelter of any
kind-for protection from the terrors of
the open air. But darker and larger
asrrl,t oil nd Oh
them. 1t was a sudden and more
CHASTITY night rushing upon the realm
of noon.
Amid the other horrors the mighty
mountain now cast up columns of boil
ing water. Blent and kneaded with the
half-burning ashes, the streams fell
like seething mud over the streets in
frequent intervals. And full, where the
priests of Isis had now covered around
the affairs, on which they had vainly
sought to kindle fires and pour incense,
one of the fiercest of those deadly tor
rents. mingled with immense frag-
ments of scoria, had poured it's rage.
Over the Bonded forms of the priests
il dashed; that cry had been of death
that silence had been of eternityl
The ashes - the pitchy stream
sprinkled the affairs, covered the pave
ment and half concealed the quivering
COrpSeS OF the pI1eStS.
Meanwhile the streets were already
thinned: the crowd had fastened to
| dispense itself under shelter; the ashes
began to fill up the lower parts of the
town; but, here and there, you heard
the steps of fugitives crunching them
YEARLY or saw their pale and haggard
faces by the blue glare of the lightning
or the more unsteady glare of torches,
by which they endeavored to steer
their steps. But ever and anon the
| boiling water or the struggling ashes
| mysterious and gusty winds rising and
| dying in a breath eXtinguished these
| wandering lights, and with them the
| last living hope of those who bore
| them.
The fugitiVes hurried on; they gained
| the gate; they passed by the Roman
sentry; the lightning flashed over his
| liVid face and polished helmet but his
stern features were composed even in
| their awe! He remained erect and mo-
tionless at his post. That hour itself
had not animated the machine of the
ruthless majesty of Rome into the
| reasoning and self-acting man. There
| he stood, amid the crashing elements;
| he had not received the permission to
desert his station and escape.
| The cloud which had scattered so
| deep a murkiness over the day had
| now settled into a solid and impene
! trable mass. 1t resembled less even
| the thickest gloom of a night in the
! open air than the close and blind dark
| ness of some narrow room. But in
| proportion as the blackness gathered
| did the lightnings around NesuVius in
| crease in their vivid and scorching
| glare. Nor was their horrible beauty
| confined to the usual hues of fire. no
| rainbow ever rivaled their varying and
| prodigal dyes. Now brightly blue as
/ the most azure depth of a Southern
sky-now of a livid and snake like
! green. darting restlessly to and fro as
the folds of an enormous serpent-now
of a lurid and intolerable crimson,
gushing forth through the columns of
smoke, far and wide. and lighting up
| the whole city from arch to arch
| then suddenly dying into a sickly pale
| ness. like the ghost of their own life!
In the pauses of the showers you
| heard the rumbling of the earth be-
meath and the grooming waves of the
| tortured sea: or, lower still, and audi
BILE but to the watch of intensest fear.
| the grinding and kissing mumur of the
escaping gases through the chasms of
| the distant mountGin. Sometimes the
| cloud appeared to break from it's solid
mass and by the lightning, TO assume
| quaint and vast mimicries of human
or of monster shapes. striding across
the gloom, hurting one upon the other
/ and vanishing swiftly into the turbu-
| lent abyss of shade: so that, to the
eyes and fancies of the affrighted wan
| derers, the unsubstantial Yapors were
as the bodily forms OF gigantic foes
the agents of terror and Of death.
The ashes IN many places were al
| ready knee-deep. and the boiling show
ers which came from the steaming