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Tu the meantime, both volcanoes continued to rumble with unapeased ferocity. The perpetual con-pulsion and tumultuous play of serents and Iaaces and arrows of the phosphorescent fire of the lightning frightened the superstitious and ignorant villagers, brought abou species of despair and deprived of reason, ring Flood ne ously with the volcanic outbursts came a swift, de vouring flood, the waters rushing down the mountain side at a furious vote, thick, black waters, turbid and compact, coagulated with lava and thick mud, As the volcanoes erupted, the accumulated snow on their peaks (both these mountains are in the North Temperate Zone) suddenly became t: cnsformed Into a oaring mountain torrent whose momentum way increased boiling water that id from the open crater. 'This torrent, gathering lava and mud in vast' quantity ies, rushed down on the villages clustered at the foot of the mountein with the suddenness and fury of a tidal wave, spreading death and destruction far and wide.
At the time of writing it is estimated that the dead and missing total over 300 aad that hundreds of homes have been destroyed. That the toll of life wasn't heavier is due to the fact that this territory of Japan is very sparsely populated and also to the fuct that the cataetrophe was unloosened during the day-time when the farmers" and their families were in the fie and were able to flee to safety. The villages at the foot of the peaks have, however, been completely. stroyed representing loss of wealth of over 30. years' hard toil. What was once a flourishing mountain community, a verdant valley, verdant because of the very accumulation of lava in the soil in times gone by, is no more.
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