Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-15
WHEN HELL BLEW THE LID OFF
Tremendous Volcanic Eruption That
Occurred In Java Recently.

lFemendous volcanic EruptIon lHat
Occurred In Java Recently.
Official advices just received by the
State Department report that the re-
cent eruption of the Klot Cor Kalut)
volcano in Java cost 10000 native
lives, destroyed twenty thousands of
acres of crops, principally rice. by its
flow of hot mud, and did millions of
dollars worth of damage by the fall
ing ashes in regions outside the de-
vastated districts.
In this connection the National
Geographic Society has issued, from
its Washington headquarters, the fol-
lowing bulletin:
Volcano made in the first place, and
constantly being remade by them, Java
has more volcanoes than any area Of
it's size in the world. Estimates of the
active and extinct craters range from
100 to $50. Everywhere in Java, in
the huge crater lakes. in assures that
now are river beds. even in ancient
temples, half finished when interrupt
ed by some fiery convulsion, are evil
dences of cataclysmic forces-such
turbulent forces as now are in continu-
Gus hysteria in the Valley Of the Ten
Thousands Smokes in Alaska and
break their crusted surface cage in
termittently in Java.
1.-The 'treacherous Klot', as the
natives call it, all but wiped out the
town Of Britar but even its devasta-
ton, as reported to the State Depart
ment, was mild compared to the vio-
lent upheaval Of Krakatoa in 1883.
Then Mother Nature turned anarchist
end planted a Gargantuan Internal
machine on the doorstep of Java.
Krakatoa is a little island in the
Sunda Strait, between Sumatra and
Java. Australians. as far from the
explosion as New York is from FL
Paso, heard the terrific detonation,
more than half the island was blotted
out, parts Of 1t were flung aloft four
times as high as the worlds highest
mountain, and to touch bottom below
the waters surface where most of the
island had been, henceforth required
a plumb line twice as long as the
height Of the Washington monument.
Skyscraper waves flooded adjacent is
lands and rolled half way around the
earth. Every human ear drum heard,
though it may not have registered, the
air-waves as they vibrated three or
four times around the earth.
"Krakatoa levied smaller toll in
human life than Klot, because Of its
isolation, and many of the $4,000
deaths from Krakatoas eruption were
at far distant points by drowning.
IAN eruption anywhere on the is
land means disaster. For Java, about
equal in area to New York state sup
ports population greater than the
combined populations of the Empire
state and the four other most populous
states in the union-Pennsylvani
Illinois. Ohio and Texas,
Naturally the native religion is
fatalistic, A free translation of an
hiSSiiPtioh OH all Olu lOllD runs.
What Is the use of living, of kiss
ing lovely flowers,
If, though they are beautiful, they
must soon fade into nothing
I'm the native folklore are innu-
merable stories Of the earth opening
up to swallow a dancing girl
Such tales betoken another physical
feature of the island fraught with hu-
man tragedy. Not only has it's stream
ing vents, spouting geysers, sulphur
lakes but great chasams open and
close, and they have been known to
swallow villages"
Higher, Higher, Hisher!-"Do you
know. last night they got into the
grocer's. broke open his safe and took
s3,OOO."
He should worry! He'll get that
back in a few days."-New York