Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — BURIED BY A VOLCANO. [ARTICLE]

BURIED BY A VOLCANO.

A telegram from Wakomoloa, Japan, Thursday, says that the volcano of Mount Iwahassi suddenly burst into ac tivity, and in a short time fifty-six houses in Iwasenura were destroyed. A later telegram says the eruption continued with great destruction and loss of life. About four hundred persons and thirty houses in a village called Bira, were buried under sand and ashes thrown out by the volcano. Among those buried were some fifteen visitors at the hot springs in the neighborhood. At Chicago, Saturday, James Geddes and Charles Nelson had a fight and Geddes not only bit off the other man’s ear, but swallowed it.