Video: 'The Eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz Volcano - Colombia 1985'

(Wednesday, November 13, 1985, 9:09 p.m. COT) — A snow-capped volcano in northern Colombia that had not erupted in nearly 400 years came to life tonight in a brilliant, explosive burst, touching off floods of raging water and mud that killed some 23,000 people.