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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 9 (AP) - Three, an possibly four, volcanoes "blew their tops" across Cook Inlet today and in mid-afternoon Anchorage was in pitch darkness, with fine ash powder sifting down over it. The peaks were identified by the Air Force as Mount Spurr, 11,050 feet high, seventy-eight miles west of Anchorage; Mount Torbert, a 10,6000-foot summit ten miles west of Mount Spurr, and an unidentified peak 4,500 feet high, four miles to the northwest of Mount Spurr.

Associated Press, 1953, Anchorage is darkened by ash of 3 volcanoes: The New York Times, July 10, 1953, section L, p. 21.