Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-09

lngs have been oyertaken by sudden
death, on rocount Of volcanic eruptlons,
II Is another item on the long list Of
calamities the present year has wit
messed This time It Is the town OF
netslbulon, In Guatemala, that has
been buried under a mass OF lava
stones, and ashes thrown from the
crater OF Mount Tacoma. The destruc'
tive forces Of Vulcan are stlll active In
the Central American region,
The seismic disturbances IN these re-
glons have once more reminded people
Of the story Of Plato and certain Egyp
ten priests, regarding the destruction
Of Atlantis. According to the frag'
meniarv accounts sdll extant, the name
Atlantis WIS given TO n vast and
rightly empire, comprising a cortinent
in the Atlantic ocean, over which the
ancients travelled to other Islands, and
TO another continent; also the Mediter-
ranean coasts as far as Egypt
According to the story told TO
Scion, the warriors Of Atlantis
oyerran the Mediterranean coasts
until they We're repulsed by the
Athenians, who pursued the invaders,
to their own country and liberated "all
the nations within the pillars" "a little
while afterwards" the account says,
"there was a great earthquake, and
your warrior race all sank into the
earth. And the great island Of Atlantis
also sank into the sea-"
Considerable doubt has been enter
tanned as to the authenticity OF this
tradition. But 1t appears that the an.
cient American records furnish strong
evidence for the historical truth OF the
Egyptian legend. NJ. lie Plongeon as
serts that the records OF the catas-
trophe are TO be found, full OF detail. In
the writings OF no less than four DIFF
ferent authors who lived In the Maya
empire, in Central America. One OF
these records. he says, Is a stone slab
which Is as intact today as when Il
came from the hands Of the sculptor
The second account is preserved In the
so-called Troano manuscript, whose
author says In part
THE year six Kan, on the eleventh
Muluc, In the month nac, there oc-
CURED terrible earthquakes, which con-
tinued without inteiinission until the
Chuen. The country OF the
hills OF mud, the land OF Mu, was sacfi-
feed. Being twice upheayed II sud
denly disappeared during the night the
busis being continually shaken by vol
canic forces Being confined, these
caused the land to sink anu rise several
Times and In various places, AT last
the surface gave way. and the ten
were torn asunder and lcat-
tered In Fragments unable 10 With
stand the forces Of seismic convul s0ns,
thev sank with their sixty-four millions |
Of inhabitants 5000 years before the
writing OF this book"
The evidence furnished by ancient |
American records for the existence at
one time, OF continent, Of which the |
Little Antilles are, perhaps, the high
,st mountain tops, stlll visible over the
surface Of the ocean, goes far to dlspel
The doubts entertained as to the truth
Of the story Of the classics. A
1ataclysm which made such an inn
preston on both sides OF the Atlantic.
must have been Of tremendous extent.
The present volcanic activity
throughout the earth is reminder OF
he fact that the earth by no meansfs
lnlshed. 1t is stlll In stage OF forma-
ion, being subject to notifications and
,hanges. What caiaclysms may yet
1appen2 Who can tell? What pow
srful sermon the forces of nature are
to the children Of men, II
hey would bat give attention theretol
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