Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1901 — Java’s Great Explosion. [ARTICLE]

Java’s Great Explosion.

Dr. Eugene Murray Aaron calls the eruption of the volcano Krakatua In Java “the greatest explosion of modern times.” He says: . “It is quite safe to say, when we are asked the question as to which of all the mighty manifestations of God’s power in this world thus far within the ken of science has been the most stupendous, the most all-overwhelming, that the terrific annihilation of Krakatua, in 1883, surpasses all else. A smoke that encircled the globe, a wave that traveled 7,500 miles, a sound heard 3,000 miles afar and an air shock hurled thrice around the earth—what more can be sought as testimony to the pentup energies beneath our very feet?”