Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — Vesuvius Active. [ARTICLE]

Vesuvius Active.

Vesuvius has lately been very active. It l lias teen rapidly throwing up a newooua j of eruption about thirty to forty yards to the southwest of the original one, and the fissure across the crater plane toward the west-southwest is increasing in size and is richer in acid emanations. It Is possible, therefore, that an eruption may tahe place soon on that side of the cone, since the vent tends to shift along the fissure pointing in that direction.