The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-04-13

most gone. We, ourselves, could
hardly breathe.
Naples. April 11.-Thoueands of
lives have been lost as result of
the eruption of Vesuvious, while
the property loss is estimated at
$50, 200, 900. Towns throughout
the district are being overwhelmed
with ashes and the darkness of
night hangs over the entire region,
showers of stones as big as hens
eggs are falling upon the fleeing re.
fuges while lava is again on the
move down all sides of the noun.
tains.
1t is believed that Naples is in
the gravest danger. Business is at
standstill and the people are posi-
lively mad. There is wild scram.
BILE to get out Of the city. The poor
er classes IRE fighting madly for
places in churches to PROSTATE
themselves at the altars. Engin-
eers have refused to take out rail-
road trains because of the darkness
and traffic is entirely suspended.
All shipping is preparing to leave
the harbor. Hundreds of tourists
are marooned and unable to leave.
The number of vessels is wholly in
adequate to take the people away.
The passage of vehicles through
the streets of Naples is prevented
by the drifts of ashes. Reports are
constantly received Of buildings col
.lapsing under the weight of cinders.
Explosions are increasing in num-
Der and intensity. Many new era.
ters are forming on Vesuvious. The
instruments record the most severe
subterranean agitation. This in
formation comes from Mattecuci,
the intrepid scientist, who still re-
mains at his post on the side of the
volcano, who adds to his dispatches
today that he thinks the worst is
yet to come.
All hope for the people who in
sisted on remaining near Vesuvious
has been abandoned. Refugees tell
of scores buried alive, and the slight
ly injured doomed to death by suf-
location. In many places entire
families are found kneeling about
the humble shrine slain while at
prayer by deadly gases,
The terrible beauty and magnif.
cence of the eruption at night is be-
yond the power of human tongue to
describe. The entire heavens were
lighted by the glare, which was re-
hected hundreds of miles away.
The manufacturing town of Sar-
no, city of 10000 inhabitants,
containing castles, factories, sui
phur baths, is reported entirely de-
stroyed and overwhelmed by vol.
canic ejecta. Lava has wrecked the
hamlet of San Genntro.
The election of sand is driving
the populace away from many dis
tant towns. At Somma cinders and
ashes are six feet deepin the streets,
while at San Guisssppa the debris
reaches the third story windows.
Five hundred refugees between Ot-
.tajano and San Giuseppe are re-
ported to have been killed. The
lava has reached Pompeii. Poggio
Marino has been completely buried
under the ashes.
Fifty houses and three churches
collapsed this afternoon at Somma
and the city hall is threatened with
destruction. Refugees say houses
continue falling in at Ottajana. In
all towns in that neighborhood
buildings are either in ruins or tot.
tering.
From the volcano an enormous
mass of black smoke rises for mile;
above the crater. Molten lava
and masses of redhot stones are
thrown thousands Of feet iu the air
, Ashes are fallen as far south as Sec.
ity ard for leo miles north in Italy
Throughout the stricken region
thousands of persons have persisted
from the sulphurous fumes. Ever
in Naples numbers of persons hav'
been overcome from the poisonous
gases. All roads to Naples arr
choked with refugees, though thu
heavy tall of ashes is rendering
walking difficult and making it al
! most impossible for wheeled vehi
cles to move.
The stream of lava which starte
{ from a fssure far below the con
, , and completely destroyed the tow
of Boscotrecaz has started in a ne,
direction toward Tore Annunziats
reached the cemetery of that place
and now Is pouring down upo
Pompeii. Another stream ha
reached Tore del Greco. Thoul
ands of acres of cultivated land wit
houses and livestock have bee
swept away.
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