The Charleston Daily News

The following is told of a strange phenomenon lately taking place in the Grecian Archipelago:

The story, fully vouched for as true by United States and other officials who were eye witnesses to the startling phenomenon, is stranger than any fiction conceivable, and the phenomenon itself is one of the most remarkable ever known. The island has risen from under the sea, not suddenly, but gradually, and the water for miles around was boiling and steaming at a tremendous rate. While this island was thus gradually growing, that of Santorin, near by, appears to have been disappearing. A gentleman who landed on the new island found it to be of coal or lava, and still so hot that eggs which he discovered thereon were cooked hard. Among other curious accompanying phenomena is the appearance on the surface of the ocean, as good as new, of a vessel which was sunk ten years ago. The island is several miles in circumference, and, being of volcanic origin, it is supposed will disappear as soon as the force of the irruption is expended.