Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1902 — ALL ISLANDS MAY SINK. [ARTICLE]

ALL ISLANDS MAY SINK.

Geologist Says a Great Cavity Has Formed Within the Earth. Prof. Angelo Heilprin, the eminent geologist and authority on volcanology, declares there is danger that all the West Indian reef islands will collapse nnd rink into the sea from the effects of the volcanic disturbances now in progress. More than that, he says the Nicaraguan canal route is in danger because it is in the eruption zone. "In my opinion the volcanic eruptions are not the only things to be feared,” he continued. "It is altogether likely that the volcanic disturbance now going on may result in the collapse of the islands whose peaks spring intn activity. "The constant eruptions of rock, lava and ashes, you must Jtnow, means that a hole, as it were, is being made in the bosom of the (earth. When this hole reaches a great sise that which is above will be without-support, and then subsidence must follow.”