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Vol.
XIII. No .i
Not Mt. Katmai
» Seward Weekly Gateway of
prints the following article:
• k I.ec, the well known Cana
> xplorer, who r.riived on the
this morning from the west
"’ates positively that the recent
eruption that has been cred
Mt. Katin. 1 <lid not occur at
' the mount, in that caused all
•uMe w.ts M 'tint Sevenosky,
•1 about S mi' ■ from Katmai.
xnlosion of S« venosky caused
' springs on Katmai to blow
i* h accounts for the clouds of
'•team, mistaken for smoke and
v observers, while the rain of
pumice, and dust all came
>evenoskv. Mr I.ce was at
\ at the time of the eruption,
■a e has visited. Katmai in or
utake a careful study of the
’ d effect of the eruption.”
I he New Village
“Perry”
: « »ple d Katina: village, to
with a few from Afognak,
. hundred in all, have been
the S. S. Manning to Ivan
little west of Chignik. on
i. ninsula, where the Govern
-rt them up in housekeep
nshing them everything
| In < s to doi ie< and ;i sein.
\ village has been named
"!'• y Capt. Reynolds, in honor
of the genial Capt of the Manning.
Capt l’erry says the site f« r the vil
lage i< wonderfully heau iful, h.nv
in.ua tine land-looked harbor. and
an excellent beach. There is also
plenty of fish and game. While the
Manning was there the men made a
haul with the sein, getting such a
1 irge catch «*f salmon that they could
not pull it ashore without gieat dan
get of breaking the net. l;or once
1 u their lives, at least, the people of
the new village were thoroughly
clean, and with complete new out
fits. have a clean start in life.
Might of the people of the old vil
lage, who were very badly diseased
are in a temporary lazaretto in Kodi
ak, under the care of Dr. Joseph A.
Silverman, awaiting transfer tosom *
hospital.
Taking everything into considera
tion the people of Katmai are in far
better circumstances now than they
were before the ei uption, and they,
at least, have reason t<> be thankful
for the disaster.
Effects of the Eruption
as Seen at Present.
We can now look hack on nearly
eight weeks of life in the midst of
volcanic ash. Many times we have
wished that the eruption might have
taken pla e either two days sooner or
two days later, in either case the
wind would have blown the dust in
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