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St. Helens (from page one) • The Spanish claimed that because Hernandez had been the first to sail through the sound, the Nootka area should belong to them. The English said that since they had been first to set foot on the land, the territory was rightly theirs. The English built a fort there; the Spaniards seized an English ship in retaliation, and war was brewing. • England sent an ambassador named Alleyne Fitzherbert Baron St. Helens to Spain where he successfully negotiated an agreeable treaty between the two. In 1794, the Nootka Convention was signed and both countries were given equal access to the area. • When Captain George Vancouver of the British Royal Navy began an extensive exploration of the area, he saw a prominent mountain looming in the distance and named it after British Baron St. Helens. Therefore, Mount St. Helens is named neither for a saint nor for a woman named Helen; it is named for a peacemaking ambassador.

The buildup of activity attracted curious tourists and journalists to the area despite warnings by geologists of the possible danger that existed. Nearby communities as well as the rest of the nation had plenty of warning that a major eruption was imminent. • Geologists soon observed a 320-foot-high bulge appearing on the north slope, indicating that molten magma was pressing outward and creeping steadily forward at the rate of about five feet per day. The heat melted deep ice off the mountaintop and a nearby glacier, and groundwater boiled away in some places. An earthquake caused by the deep underground movement of magma suddenly triggered an immense avalanche that slid down the north face, taking most of the mountainside with it and exposing the white-hot magma underneath.

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were washed down that the sewer treatment plant shut down for fear of permanent damage. In Spokane, so much water was being used to wash down cars, sidewalks, and rooftops that strict water rationing had to be imposed. • The reservoir in Potlatch, Idaho dropped three feet in a single hour and was nearly empty after only half of the town’s streets had been washed down. In Pasco, Washington, paper envelopes full of ash being mailed from residents to friends and relatives around the country kept breaking open during processing, ruining the machinery. Postal officials instructed people to carefully seal any ashes in ziplock baggies before mailing.

• Folks in Seattle suggested dropping the “W” from the state’s name and calling it Ashington instead. One disc jockey joked, “If you were planning on visiting Washington this year, don’t bother. Washington will be visiting you!”

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