The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-31
4 RARE SIGHT
From the Deck Of a Steam Ship
ia Mid Ocean.
SAW AN ISLAND BORN.

States Steamer Albatross Sud.
denly Behold q Red Hot Noun.
tain Rise Out Of the
Ocean.
Lieutenant Hepburn, Of tbs United
States Navy, navigating cm;er OF tie
United States steamship Albarross
has jlsS h&d the extraordinary ex
perienea Of witnessing tbs hisEb Of s
new is..sad, says the Nsw York Amer
icao.
The Albatross. which IS constantly
employ LED in making discoveries n tie
deep ssas, vas cruising Of tie ALEU-
tian Islands, which stretch ont vest.
ward from Alaska, forming the d3vsion
between Behrirg Sea snd the Pacst'"
Ocean. She was in laei:u1e So 81
north acd longitude 168 west whsa
the astounding phenomenon occurred.
This spot lies bout fifty niIas north
west o. UnaIeSks Islsn6 s25 near tbs
Bceuslay Hands, which are Of vel
csnic csig!n.
L'eute1sot Hepburn wsS ca deck
shortly after suurise, when his atSeE
tica vas attracted By an sxsrsor4i.
nary disturbance Of tie waters. TIE
surface OF tins ocean S5 s particli=..
spot rose into 8 dcmelike swelling as
large IS the dcme OF the Cepttc! &:
Washing ZOE, than srhside6 and the:2:
rose sSain. Rs1ore esch suosi6sEcs
there was a tremendous escaSs OF gas,
ike 8 huge bubble pushing its ws3
through the wsser.
Then the 6on,e-Eke fornstsoo
cesssed, ana new and more terrific
disturbances riveted tie attention OF
the astounded watcher. Great CLOUDS
Of smoke and steam issued from the
surface, where the bumps had been.
AS he wstchsd, tce eruption rapidly
grew 10 immensity until it seem o! as
/; Il vcul6 invc.ya the whole OF tie
ccesn sc5 tie sky.
T2e ocean botle5 up IS II 1t were
lying IL al snme2sursbls furnace. A
7sst column Of steam, smoke, frs,
rocks and other materials shot from
the ocean up into the sky 50 high
that the top Of it could not be dis
csrnsd. The column wss pccbstly
three miles IN width. Il was an il,
descritsely terrifying spectacle. AL
the cface,s and men Of the Alhstross
came runb,ing on deck to see ii.
Within the t,smoke and othsr
material could be discerne5 8 vast
column OF aaaas which rose up into
the sky with . rearing no;ss. Bcgs
boulders shot up il the flames with
3 report louder Chan test Of ali the
12-iccb guas OF the biggest bGttle-
ship firing at ccce. TIE iga5 socrchea
those on the A!hasrcss sEd nGss hsvs
besn percspsibis for Fifty mjles
around. Tae entire ocean was heat
cd.
The column Of smoke and fire
charged in color. Is wss red, yellow,
blue and dark brown By turns. The
molten mstter thrown up into the
sky came down sgsin in Q partially
cooled condition and fell into the
ocean with . continuous s'zz:icg sn6
q nigh y splashirg, sanding forth
constantly concsn:r!c hot waves Of
water which rocked the Al5.t-oss
yiolertly. Ashes we're scattered by
ths fiery pilsr and fell On the ccesn
for miles arcuad. Doubtless toss
were being carried round the world,
as has been hsepened in other vol.
canic eruptions'.
TIE spectacle which Lieutenant
Hepburn snd the crew OF the Alba
tross were witnessing Was the erup-
tion Of a submarine volcano. Some.
where beneath the ocean bsd sn im-
mense mass OF burning matter bad
gathered such force ttat it's expsn,
sion vas great enough to bust through
the crust Of the earth even when
weighted down By the ocean above it,
Wien the terg mass met the ocesn
the watez was Immediately convs3led
into slesn. Thus thsre vas formed
q column Of buraing earth and e1-
plosive gsses leading from the ocean
bed away up past the surface inso
the sky. It was sn infinitely more
terrible eruption On account OF the
mixture Of water thsn would have
occurred from volcano whose crster
was exposed to the upper air.
After an hour or so the watchers
saw q 62rk trcR n SOLID mass Of ire.
gular sbspe forming upon the water
st the case Of the fiery colunn. That
wss the birth Of the isiapd. The
lava and burning esrth hsd conplses-
y filed up the ocean from its heo
hundreds Of fathons down, to the
surfsce, and was now rising above the
ErSfsca. Higher and higher it mount.
ed, Wills fame, smoke ard molten
matter continually belched forth from
its certre, which was q volcanic
crater. The matter flowed cut on
sl sides and grs6uslly increased the
sizs OF the isisnd. The summit Of
the Talcsno appeared TO be climbing
up into the SKY. Il has sincs besr
estinstea 70 have reached q Insight OF
1000 feet.
To the great Disappointment OF
many OF the officers and crew Of the
Al5stross, the captain decided that
IL was inpossibls to attempt to lsrd
On the new. born Island c- to go any
nearer to 1t. He knew from bis
study Of the SUBJECT thst the islsrd
wcu.d be IN such q heated condition
t,1a, i: W u..a nean sth 60 laad oo
1t, -snc that even to spp:oseh nesrer
to 1t would be to risk tie fs1e OF
many shErs that had been ovsrwhelm-
ed IN the Mont Pslse eruption. The
Albat1oss, therefore, 5ailsd away
while the eruption vas raging furious.
IL.