VOLCANO’S SODDEN OUTBREAK.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3306, 26 August 1911, Page 5

VOLCANO’S SODDEN OUTBREAK.

ASAYM A-YAJVSA IN CONVULSION

TOURISTS OVERWHELMED BY

LAVA

Asayma-T ama, the lofty and passively active volcano in the Island of Hondo, near the principal summer resort of Ivaruizawa, has broken out again with fearful suddenness.

With a mighty roar the crater became convulsed, and the huge stream of lava that flowed down the mountain side carried everything before it.

A number of tourists were traversing the road from the base to the summit at the time of the eruption, and two parties, numbering about thirty, are beWlieved to have been overwhelmed in the molten mass, and to have perished. People who were on the lower slopes abandoned their effects, and fled to safety.

It is just a little more than two months ago since this volcano erupted with terrible suddenness, and overwhelmed a number of Japanese pilgrims who were taking part in a religious festival at the shrine on the suniimt. The explosion on that occasion was one of such terrific violence that it could be heard in Tokio, 90 miles away. Manv lives were lost in the eruption. The volcano is 8315 ft. high, and has a crater 1000 ft. in diameter.