Notes and Correspondence 303 



No. 



Date 



35 



36 



37 



43 



44 



Sun. 9/6 



Mon. 9/7 



Tues. 9/8 



II :04 am 



10 :30 pm 



Character of 



Tues. 9/8 



Tues. 9/8 



Tues. 

 Wed. 



Wed. 



9/8 

 9/9 



9/9 



Wed. 9/16 



Sat. 9/19 



8 :oo am 



9:55 am 



10 :25 am 



II :35 am 

 4 :20 am 



3 :oo pm 



3 :oopm 



3 :io am 



Medium. Entire cra- 

 ter active. Height 

 7,920 ft. 



Very heavy. Wind 

 negligible. Column 

 dust ascended to 

 great height. Rum- 

 blings awakened 

 lookout on Broke- 

 off Mt. 



Very slight. Began 

 subsiding almost 

 immediately after 

 first outburst. 



Medium. Began sub 

 siding immediately 

 after outburst. 



Medium. Shghtly 

 more ash thrown 

 out than two pre 

 ceding eruptions. 



Heavy. Ash clouds 

 enveloped moun 

 tain. Entire crater 

 active. 



Medium. 



Considered one of 

 largest eruptions to 

 date. Heavy fall of 

 ashes in Mineral 

 and Lyonsville. 



Mountain obscured 

 by clouds. Only in- 

 dication of erup- 

 tion was fall of 

 ashes at Viola. 



Medium. 



Duration 



3 hr. 55 min, 



Continued 

 indefinitely 

 thru early 

 morning 

 hours. 



Had not 

 reached 

 normal 

 when sec- 

 ond erup- 

 tion took 

 place. 



Normal had 

 not been 

 reached 

 when third 

 eruption of 

 day took 

 place. 



Normal not 

 reached. 



I hr. 50 min. 



Continued 

 after sun- 

 down. 



Crater Size 



Crater re- 

 ported to 

 have 

 widened 



considerably 

 in west end 



Unknown. 



Short. 



Storm 

 cleared on 

 i8th, dis- 

 closing 3 

 new 



vents on 

 west slope 

 undoubted- 

 ly caused 

 by eruption 

 of i6th. 



