SAN FRANCISCO, May 10. -- The California newspapers are now getting from the small towns of the State some striking accounts of what the earthquake did in those places. John K. Orr, a ranch owner ...

following a series of earthquakes. Video showed orange lava bursting out of a long fissure, which the IMO estimated to be 2.4 ...

after a sequence of small earthquakes in the hour before. Enormous plumes of smoke and spews of lava have since been flowing from a nearly 4 kilometre (2.5 miles) long volcanic fissure.

The six-storied campanile of the ancient Jaro cathedral collapsed and some fissures caused by the earthquake were more than 100 yards long. Altogether damage was caused to the extent of about £ ...