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ERUPTION IN HOKKAIDO,
WHOLE SIDE OF MOUNTAIN BLOWN OUT!
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Fof" Mount Tokachi The three ex- plosions followed one another in quick succession.
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Almost immediately a torrent of muddy water about 20 feet high, raced down the hill slopes like s [BY ALFRED PIERES.)
tidal wave and swept past the vil An improved system of train) lages in about ten minutes. It was control was to have been brought Hakodate, Hokkaido, May 28:- opaque and denso, thickly coagu- into operation in Colombo last After having been. déloyed several |lated with mud, ashes and lava and, Sunday. The more efficient con hours un route due to the raziway" like a tremendous battering ram, trął which will be established by tracks being covered in many places | shivered a bridge to pieces and then the new telephone. 'ayetem will with mud, ashes and lava from two engulfed the lowlands below. make for the better running of Jato three feet deep. I managed by
Othor witnesses gave graphic pic-'į trains. To a large extent control occasionally walking and occa- turas of the volcanoes at the height will be centralised in the hande 'sionally riding a country horas, to of their wrath. Masses of murky of the Controllers at Maradana. get from Tokyo to the affected area smoke suddenly shot up, in the who will be in constant touch with and very near the peaks that were midst of which glowered hungry the various stations on the now responsible for so much of the re-tongues of yellow fire. Sky and telephone circuits Having the cont destruction.
earth, they said, alternately redden-latest information as to the move- Mount Tokachi stands just about ed and ware wrapped in a back ments of passenger and goods in the centre of Hokkaido, the ground of darkgray smoke. Sud-trains before him, the Chief Con- northernmost of the larger Islands denly a volume of fame darted uptrollor will be in a position' to give constituting the Japanese archipe-to the heavens, followed by a orders with regard to the running Jage. It is slightly over 8,500 foot | tremendous detonation. This was of the trains. The trains, of in height, but is almost, perpetually the third explosion when the left course, will be run to the time-No., £. snow-capped owing to the northerly dank of the mountain was riven and table, but if delays occur in the latitude in which it is situated blown sky high. Thick smokerage of a particular, train the Chief The region at its foot is very fasued from the new Assure, dotted Controller. will be better able to sparsely populated and among the with aparks, which, bacasionally, as issue altered instructions than the impressions carried away was that the wind biew rained ting drops of Stationmaster on the spot. The the land here would make excellent are on the countryside.
Controller, of course, will not take pasturage, and would, in time to
any action when the train service come, repay the enterprising..
fa keeping to time, but when delay plóneer a hundred-fold...
The terror of the inhabitants was inccurs to a particular train and the indescribable. Children shrieked, į time-table is upsat his services are women wailed, man cursed-high required. It is obvious that his above all this, the steady roar of instructions will be less liable to the death torrent could be heard error. than those of the local.
Terror of Inhabitants.
A Fatal Passage.. The real death-denier was Mount Tokachi, but the crater of this peak extends to Mount Iwo, a hollow, sa it rushed down unchecked and Stationmaster, who at present has sulphurie shoulder which is con- demolished the little settlement.to use his own Initiative in alter nocted with Mount Tokach, by aSeveral of the inhabitants were ing. the running of trains, and has subterranean passage-way. When trapped in their houses-and these not always sufficient Information the crater of Mount Tokach erupt-proved to be their sepulchres. For to enable him to make the ed and the explosion's lurid mans samo time, all that reached the ear, declaton.
burat forth, throwing lava over the according to the refugees, was the mountain's neck in wide profusion, chanting wall of women and the the pent-up fury of Mount Tokach swish, and whirl of the onrushing also rushed through this subter-Avalanche of water. ranean passage to Mount Iwox-so geologists here believe and caus-
ed the cavernous jaws of this peak to fling forth smoke and ashes too.
The eruption started about noon and kept on till shortly before nightfall. Lava, muc and boiling water, as they hissed and spluttered down the rocky sides of the moun-
tain, joined the rumbling of the volcanoes in sounding, a dread. tocsin and then proceeded to devour dwellings. to tose roof against neighbour rouf and to spread terror and devastation.
The foods subejded almost as
quickly as they came, simply dis appeared by spreading over the country.side. but the valley la filled with a thick gelatinous, slippery coating of mud, ashes and lava- with, here and there, the wreckage. of furniture and the remains of ance smiling homesteads..
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Coolies are those within reach. now at work, clearing the tracks and making it possible for the train service to be soon résumed:
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· Three Violent Explosions. The Headman of the principal village, who is amongst those cared, told me that there were three vio lent explosions. Almost diately after the first, a.stream of lava poured down the mountain completely damming the stream at The foot of the peaks and flooding the country-side.
The second ex- plosion occasioned a tremendous increase in the flow of lava, while the third blew off the left flank
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