MOUNT ST. HELENS BLOWS OFF STEAM.(News)

From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: October 5, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Gene Johnson Associated Press

MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Wash. -- Mount St. Helens blew off more steam Monday, shooting a billowing white plume several hundred feet above the volcano and thrilling hundreds of visitors who had gathered below the rumbling mountain.

"Wow. It was amazing," said 9-year-old Alex Turchiano, who watched from a nearby visitors center. "I was hoping to see lava so I could see the trees fall down and the lava flow into t...