Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1901 — MOUNTVESUVIUS IN ERUPTION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MOUNTVESUVIUS IN ERUPTION

Lava Pours from Its Crater and Fire Lights Up the Country. Mount Vesuvius is again in a state of active eruption, and a dispatch from Paris says that many people—scientisti

students and the curious, including American tourists—are leaving that city by every train, for Naples. The first signs of disturbance were observed a week ago, when, for three days, columns of smoke, issuing rapidly from the crater in great volume, towered high above the vol*cano. Then came

occasional rains of hot cinders, sometimes sprinkling the country for, several miles around. Now lava is beginning to run. The fire at the crater is very intense at night, illuminating the surrounding region beautifully. Only two slight tremors of earthquake have been felt so far.