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THE ERUPTION
O F
MT. KATMAI
•iring its j<> ye irs historv the (>r
mage has pistol through many
expeiiem't-i. but thehappen
• - <>t June to S eclipsed all else.
. airsday June 6th was a glorious
•F lor working in the gardens.
—-ytHitiv; was blight and heauti*
It almost seemed as if we could
• the things growing.
\ j that day we hear.; reports like
• firing of cannon hut thought it
"i«e one over at Kodiak blast
er perhaps the men on the l\ S.
nue Cutter Manning were hcv
. get practice.
" t >:3(.p. m. we noticed strange
i 1 - forming back of the Three
rr Mts The clouds were such
rk color and different from
• ‘lung we have ever seen here. I
: the bo vs who w*re with me in
; irden that it looked as if we
going to have a hail storm, and
died to cover up what cab*
plants we could, and other
hat hail would injure.
•fils time the ugly black p-*111
• reading out north and south
■aiing esst towards us. About
- k we heard thunder end a lit
r there were flashes of light
ning.
WY 1. 1 sat down to supper after
pravent. when one *»f the smaller boys
who had occasion to go to the wood
she 1 came in well sprinkled with
ashrs. <)n i»\ esti gating we found that
instead of rain or hail we were get
ting a shower of gritty-like ashes.
All * he time it was getting darker s<»
that we had to light the lamps.
After supper I went over to the
Wireless Station to see what the men
there thought about it. Their idea
was that there had been an eruption
of some volcano on the mainland.
For many hours they had been un
able to work their instruments on ac
count of the static condition of the
atmosphere. At 6 p. in. when l left
the st.ition, it had grown so dark I
had difficulty in finding my way
Home.
Hearing that there might lie it tain
to wash aw.tv. or a wind to Idow a
v. .. the ashes befote morning, the
boys went out with lanterns ami
gathered up about 6 gunny sin ks full.
We have learned Mnc-- 111..t there
were many people in the v icinity
who were equally provident.
All night there was lightning and
thunder, earthquakes, hlackest dark
ness anti continuous down-pour of
ashes, and the air was charged with
sulphurous gasses. At this time of
the year it is light almost all night;
by 2 a. m. it is always broad Jay
light, hut when that hour came and
there was no signs of light I began to
think the storm might be mere ser