Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-11
ASHES BURY TOWNS
Villages Suffer From Katmai
Volcano Eruption,
LIVES SAVED By CUTTER
The Manning Takes Aboard Resi-
dents of Kodiak. Alaska.
PROPERTY LOSS Is ENORMOUS
Evidences of Disaster Were Seen at
Dawson. Six Hundred
Miles Away.
LIVES SAVED By CUTTER
PROPERTY LOSS IS ENORMOUS

KODIAK. Alaska, June 2. via tug to
Seward. Alaska. June 11.-Kodiak and
Woody Island villagers are buried un-
der a foot of ashes as a result of the
eruption of Katmai volcano. beginning
Thursday afternoon and lasting forty
eight hours. No lives have been lost
here. but many other settlements near
the volcano must have suffered greatly.
The revenue cutter Manning was in
port here when the eruption began.
end furnished refuge for all the in
habitants of the town, 500 men. women
and children. doubtless saving many
lives. The Manning is now serving
distilled water and government rations
To the destitute people, the water sup
ply having been polluted and springs
filled with ashes
Wireless Stadon Burned.
The naval wireless station was de-
stroyed by fire. and the Manning's wire
less equipment is too weak to work with
Cordova. Dispatches are being sent by
tug to Seward. with an appeal for all
available craft to come to the assistance
of the people in the vicinity. The prop
erty loss will be enormous.
As soon as the hail of ashes, sand and
hot pImice stone began the officers of
the Manning ordered every one in Kodiak
and nearby villages to board the ship.
For more than forty hours the people
We're huddled together in the darkness of
midnight Saturday morning 1t grew
lighter. the Manning worked out of the
narrow channel and headed for the open
sea. She had not proceeded far when the
n I'D r1,o ~1x,, vn06 20, n6t
Tug Carries News.
SEWARD, Alaska. June 1.-THE first
direct news of conditions on Kodiak Is
land. which was almost devastated by
the eruption of Katmai volcano. was re-
ceived yesterday. when the tug Printer
arrived, bringing Lieut. Searles of the
revenue cutter Manning and ]. f. Frs in.
merchant of Kodiak. who appealed for
assistance for the stricken people on the
island.
Lieut. searles said that the food supply
at Kodiak was sufficient to last only fif-
teen days. All the crops on the island
We're destroyed. and millions of fish We're
killed by the sand and ashes that fen in
the water. The water supply is polluted
by the decaying fish. and springs have
been stopped up with ashes. The Man
ming is distilling water for the use of the
people.
At mass meeting of citizens a COM
mittee was appointed to handle relief
funds for the stricken villagers. An ap-
peal was sent to Congress asking that
$1,000 be placed at the disposal of the
revenue cutter service to buy food.
Messages also We're sent to Gov. Clark
urging him TO send all the revenue cut
ters on duty in Alaskan waters to the
islands laid waste by the volcano. The
tug Printer will return to Kodiak to-
morrow with all available supplies.
Ashes Seen at Dawson.
SEATTLE, Wash, June 11.-Dispatches
from Dawson, Yukon territory, 600 miles
northeast of the volcanoes, said volcano
ash fell there yesterday. The people of
Dawson had not heard of the Katmai
eruption. Other points in the Yukon val
ley reported d light fall of ashes, and
Eagles, Alaska. near the International
boundary. reported hearing distant ex-.
plosions Thursday afternoon
Think Vocano in Action.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 1.-Per-
sons arriving from the south bring re-
ports of heavy cannonading in the foot
hills of the Alaska range. and 1t is sup
posed the volcanoes are in action. The
sounds come from the vicinity of Mount
Hayes.
Ashes are falling here and the sun is