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Middlebury provided the day's surprise in edging a favored Dartmouth squad by turning in a time total of 782.1 seconds. The Big Green's hopes were shattered when their ace entry, Chris Bugge, missed one flag in his breaknock run down the slope...
...Etna. In Sicily, Mt. Etna was erupting again. A wide stream of lava creeping down its 10,741-ft. slope had cut a mountain highway, partially filled a reservoir, and frightened the villagers of Cisterna from their homes...
Although the towns on Vesuvius clustered nearer the cone than those on Etna, none was seriously damaged by the several threatening flows, but the funicular railway on the slope was completely overwhelmed and ashes were reported to have fallen in Albania, 300 miles away
...Miles told what happened. "I asked my laborer, Charlie Krawiec, what time it was. 'It's 5:45,' says he. Charlie had just put up his watch when the blast came. The props in my place were twisted and blown down. We ran out into the slope and saw several men sprawled around . . . [and] helped them to the foot of the shaft. . . . Boulders as big as kitchen tables had been blown around. . . . Mine cars made of hardwood were blown into splinters. Tracks were twisted. . . . Seven...
Just before it became a ghost in 1894, the crowded, rough mining town of Aspen, Colo, had a last burst of excitement. From Smuggler Mine on a nearby slope, prospectors took out a nugget of almost pure silver weighing 2,060 pounds...