Show MAtINA IOA SIiIL INEi1UTlMN EAIITHQUAXES DOING DAMAGE IN THE EAWAIIAN ISLANDS People Living in the Vicinity of the Volcano Are Fleeing For Safer PortsFear the Lava Chicago July 27A special to the TrIbune from Port Townsend Wash says The Hawaiian islands have been violently shaken by an earthquake and Mauna Lea on Hawaii continues in eruption Damage by the earthquake amounted probably to 50000 The news was brought by the steam or Port Albert nine days from Honolulu Hono-lulu Many excursion steamers are daily leaving Honolulu loaded with people who are anxious to see the volcanic vol-canic display There are two streams at lava one on the Kau side and if this continues to flow the government road between Panalulu and the Volcano Hotel will be obliterated The lava is following much the same course as did the flow of 1881 The other stream is making toward Hiloul What course the lava will take when it reaches the plateau between the two mountains cannot be determined Slight elevation in the way of it may divide its course to Itau or Hilo though old timers on the island believe it will follow fol-low the course of the how of 1851 The iiot is from an elevation of between 12000 and 14000 feet The eruption of 1s51 hasted five monthsthose of 1857 and 1859 and 1830 four months and that of 1SS1 about eight months Kiiauea has also long been exhibiting exhibit-ing signs of an outbreak although nu thorlties declare that there is no connection con-nection between the two volcanoes The sea had been acting strangely around Honolulu for several days before the eruption and the earthquakes occurred although there was no rough weather It was a choppy sea and mariners said that it was caused by volcanic influence Natives fishing at the Kna lualu report that there have been sew esal tidal vaves along the coast during the last month some of which tere large enough to upset their canoes On the evening of July 13 an explosIon explos-Ion shook the earth for a distance of twentyfive miles around the mountain and a number of houses were ilemol ished The earthquake shock was only slightly felt in Honolulu and comparatively compara-tively little damage was done in that cityPeople People residing within a radius of fifty miles of the volcano are fleeing to safer parts and the country around Mauna Loa is practically deserted |