Both Indians live in Lower California near…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

Both Indians live in Lower California near the Colorado river, and say that early Thursday morning they expected something very unusual to occur, as the hundreds volcanoes, some thirty miles distant, had suddenly become very active and turbulent, throwing up immense quantities of lava and a black smoke like vapor. The pe- culiarity of the eruption, not only in the force, but the change from mud volcanoes, was some- thing that appalled the entire Cocopah tribe. The volcanoes continued to increase the violence of the upheaval until the noise when at a dis- tance of thirty miles was simply deafening.