Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-19
Indications Of Fury
Being Nearly
Spent
But Tragedy follows
Tragedy in the
Stricken Land

Naples, April 15.-While the news
from vesuvius is reassuring condi-
tons here in Naples are such as TO
make it difficult to realize that the
conditions are actually better. The
wind is carrying the ashes in this
direction. Towards evening the fall
of ashes and cinders here was worse
than at any time since the eruption
began.
The scenic effects vary from hour
o hour. Now the north sky is
chocolate colored, lowering and heavy,
under which men and women with
their hair and clothing covered with
ashes move about like gray ghosts.
Fort San MARITIME, as it towers above
the town, can only just be seen, while
light, shining like silver against the
brown sky.
South beyond the smoke zone lies
smiling sunny Posilipo and it's PENN
sula, while far away glistens the sea.
deep blue, on which the islands
seem to float in the glow of the set
ting sun Adding to the strange pic
ture, one of the French men-of-war
which arrived in the bay yesterday is
to be placed so as to be half in the
glow and half obscured by the belt OF
falling ashes.
From the observatory on Mount We
suvius, where Director Matteucci is
continuing his work in behalf of sci
ence and humanity. the scene is one
of great impressiveness. To reach
the observatory one must walk miles
over hardened bat hot lava covered
with sand, until he comes to a pvint
whence nothing can be seen but vast
gray reaches. In all this lonely
waste there is no sign of life or vege-
tation, and no sound Is heard except
the low murmurings of the volcano.
One seems almost impelled to scream
aloud to break the horrible stiffness
of land seemingly forgotten by God
and man.
Many Bodies Taken Out.
Every day that passes gives new
evidence of the magnitude of the ca
tastrophe The visit of King Victor
Emmanuel to Ottajano yesterday re-
vealed new tragedies. At certain
point his majesty was obliged to
abandon his motor car and went for
ward on horseback amid constant
danger, his horse fioundering through
four feet of ashes, stumbling into
holes, blinded by the fall of large
cinders and a target for falling ba-
saltic masses. In the presence of
the king 129 more bodies we're extri-
Gated from the ruins, while ashes and
red sand fell as though determined
not to relinquish their victims. The
dead at Ottajano are said to number
$50.
There have been a large number
of robberies of deserted houses in
spite of the efforts of the authorities
to protect property. In the excited
condition of the populace there is
some difficulty in preserving order.
1t is estimated that 5000 houses
have been destroyed or rendered. I'M
inhabitable.
Graphic Description.
Naples, April ia graphic de-
scription of the conditions surround
ing vesuvius has been written for the
Associated Press by Robert Under
wood Johnson, associate editor of the
Century Magazine. Since the Chica-
go fire, he says, he has seen nothing
so terribly impressive. Twenty years
will not repair the damage, including
the destruction of four whole villages.
With change of wind or slightly
greater propulsion Of the seismic
force, the same fate might extend to
other segments of the circle OF which
Vesuvius IS the center. Our party
caught train from Tore Annun-
ziata, three miles this side of Pompeii,
and two miles from the southern end
of the wedge of lava which destroyed
Bosco Trecase. We had a magnifi-
cent view of the eruption, eight miles
away" he writes. Rising at an an
gle of so degrees vast mass Of tumult
round us was beautifully accumulated
by the full moon, shifting momentar-
lily into new forms and drifting south
in low, black clouds of ashes and
cinders reaching to Capri. At Tore
Del Greco we ran under this terrify-