Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — Heda Seldom Quiet [ARTICLE]

Heda Seldom Quiet

Mount Hecla, or Hekla, is a volcano In Iceland, near the southwest coast, about 5,110 feet high, which has been almost Constantly In a state of eruption since the ninth century of the Christian era. Over 20 eruptions of the most violent character have taken place since. A. t>. 1000. In 178£8p an appalling catastrophe took place; rivers were dried up and many villages overwhelmed or destroyed. The vol-

cano was In a state of vlolept eruption from September 2,1845, to April, 1846. Pillars of fire rose to a height of 14,000 feet and Ice and snow, which had wrapped the mountain for centuries, melted into prodigious floods, which swept everything before them.