Show t fe r a i 1 r rr t t tS fL S Lava av a Destroys D e S tr 0 y s Pr 0 per tJ t S 1 CI rr CI J 1 ro rt rI MAUNA MAUA l A AIN IN f RC r I l RR f bf of M lt ck d f r r. r rom Crate 1 Flows Flows' 1 30 30 Miles Mile's and ant Pours Pours I Into th the Ocean H HILO ILO T. T II Oct 1 A A stream o of lava from feet to one mile wide and thirty miles Ion Ionis long longis is pouring from the foot fool ot crater o of the volcano Mauna Loa Lol into the sea today The lava overtopped the crater late lab last Monday night and reached the sea early yesterday morning g pearl nearly twelve hours ahead of the time it had has been expected to do so The eruption of Moana Loa began four days ago and subsided In violence after a brief duration only to break forth with new force Monday night Two ranch hom homes S and other val valuable able property Including much koa wood have been destroyed by the molten rock The lava traveled the thirty miles to I the the sea in less than twelve hours The flow traversed the Kona dl district district dis dis- known for its coffee and sugar plantations A scientific party headed by Professor sor Thomas A. A Jaggar Jr director of ot the Kilauea observatory and former head ead of the department of geology of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Technology Tech Tech- with five days' days supplies has gone cone on a tour of investigation of the eruption The koa wood Is a valuable hardwood similar to mahogany and is used In finishing i |