The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-14
$(By Associated Press }

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NAPLES, April &13.--The period 10 8uatl
ger has passed and only desolation and n
slowly declining panic remain. Mount
&Vesuvus has cea sed 81 to give any a sign
& of life. The volcano seems Q have $sTen t d
itself lin one enormous &convuls on ss:5$ IA e5Ss
Director Matteucci. who heroically3 oldaE}
his post In the obserya tory, believes that
the eruption has ended, and every Q Ut -a8sj
ward Indication contirns this View No
more trumbling come from; the bowels Q rsEs
the earth, giving terrifying warning to
the inhabitants. The yolcanoSEls yi1iddellS;
behind n thick curtain n or smoke, which
I rises from the crat e7 and hen spreads n
and falls, envelupin vas + circle semi-sEs
darkness ples lis jus y beyond this cir
cle, and he q wa 81 lta thed
sunshine while the aug ia clsl,; hung
to the{ westward over, bolt mid WI y k,essss Nh,
tween Rome and Naples.
t5s Volcano Invisible.
vesuvIus to-day bellies popular pictures.
&whicho represent the noun stain, clearly
outlined against the sky vomiting smoke
and ashes by day and fire by night. To-
day not the slightest outline is visible
of the crater, crest or, foothills, ,Ball be-4S
ing swallowed up In a dense mass Of fSi
smoke There is the same obscurity to-
night, unrelieved by flashes or reflected
light such as are seen during quieter N
periods, Vesuyius quiescent Is pictures-
Squely grand, but active or smouder-is
ing tits terrible, only Its backness anu 4
obscurity. $5ls3H
The Associated Press correspondent q
Travelled to-day In the belt over which "a
ashes continues to fall. This lies lo8a
the north of Naples. as lie wind now
carries the discharge away from the
city. At Rome there was no sunshine,
but twenty miles south, thin veil or s8
smoke made nearby mountains 6ilnly4$
ict1 In Hnt r,,nt, 11.
The zone of senl-obscurity began twen- 4@
ty-five miles above Naples. Here there
was an uncanny phenomenon The sun. 2s
though shining. was ainvisible.SIts light n
seemed to come through smoked glass n
shedding q sclly glare upon whltened
vesetation, Everything was covered
with powder. The locomotives were
coated as though they had ploughed
through tar, Pretty white villas were #
daubed and dropping with mud, and peo-
pic were busy on the roofs shoveling 6s
off the ashes. The crowds at tho atoms
resemblcd millers. their clothing covered
with graphite powder
Looks Like Prairie. .
Tile Campngnla presents the appear
ance OF a Dakota prairie after n blizzard
except that everything is gray instead &
OF white, The ashes lie In drifts knee
deep. Villas. trees and churches have
been beaten With gray mud on the sides
tcNpOsed to the volcanic storm
Ten miles north of Naples tho train Il.
enters an area OF seml-nlght. Billows
of thick smoke roll from the direction
OF tho mountain. The railway telegraph y
poles become invisible twenty feet away.
The train moved with extreme precau-
ton to avoid collision. Breathing Is diff
cult, and the smoke makes tho eyes @
water. This obscurity lasts until short
distance north of Naples, where the stay
clears and normal conditions nre re-
suned.
Conditions Mt Naples were so much h
better to-day that tho people We're al-
most lncrcdlons of tho tales OF terror Z
told by those who had escaped from the
towns, villages and country father With- 4
IN the zone of devastation. The wea ther
was fine, and tho wind had shifted so T
thai the clouds of ashes from the volcano.
instead OF enveloping Naples, were car-l&
prehensions of the populace gave place
to q smiling confidence, IN which there I
was no reflection of the terror which VA
had prevailed for the past week,
But IN other quarters there Is no es-
Gaping from the awful evidences of tho
volcanoes fury. At Boscotrncasc the ex-
humaton Of the dead Is being carried on
by soldiers. who owing to tho advanced
state of decomposition OF the corpses.
nro unable to work more than an hour at S
n time. The work Is one Of great flnar- Il
cia cost. as well as OF danger and ardu-
onsness to those engaged IN 1t, Many
of the bodies are merely shapeess. unree-
osnlzabe masses OF flesh and bones, j
quickly ns possible they nre buried In #
utick!lme, TO lessen, as far as may be, q
the danger Of epidemic, None but those 5
engaged in the work Of recovering the 4
corpses are permitted In the vicinity hi
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