Show earthquake AND ERUPTIONS AT HAWAII THE tue sandwich sand Band islands have been visit ed by terrible earthquakes hawaii the largest island of the group has suffered heavily 4 from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions the most frightful and disastrous of any that have occurred since the discovery of the islands by the whites the eruption was by numerous sharp shar and severe shocks of earthquake which were felt on all the islands with more or orless less distinctness but were more destructive on the island of hawaii mauna loa the seat of the volcano vo leano began the demonstrations on the of march and du on the one hundred or more shocks were felt from march to april loth it was estimated that there had been upward of two thousand shocks on thal that island there having been some days between three and four hundred the heaviest shock occurred on april 2nd and this was felt throughout the group it destroyed every church and nearly every dwelling in the whole district of kau on hawaii whole villages were destroyed tro immediately after the eruption a tidal wave rolled in from the ocean this wave rolled in over the tops of the cocoa nut trees probably sixty feet high at least and drove the floating rubbish I 1 timber ac inland a distance of a quarter of a mile mlle n ile lle in some places taking with it when it returned to 8 sea bea I 1 M houses men women and children and almost everything move moveable moveably able abie this wave expanded banded itself on the coast a distance of fifty miles it was calculated that at least one hundred lives were lost by the ea earth rth quake and the tidal wave the sufferings and consternation of the people of the district where these things occurred are described as being very great night after night they were compe compelled lied to sleep on the motin mountains tatus exposed to cold and damp winds and rain from the sea subsisting on entaro taro and fishes when they could get them aud fasti fasting ng when t they b ey could not the whole district was a field of f desolation and the foreigners who had been living there were leaving with the intention of never returning again at A waiohinu when the heavy shock was was felt feit I 1 the people who were moving about were all thrown off their feet horses and cattle dropped down as if dead A man riding on ow horseback had his horse tumbled under unde him so po suddenly that he fl found himself and horse lying flat on the ground before the of an earthquake entered his mind A writer ter I 1 in 1 anthe the honolulu advertiser from which paper we glean the above particulars eulara says in relation to the shock first the earth swayed to and fro fro from m north and south then east and west round and round then up and dowd down down and in every eveny imaginable direction for foi several Li minutes everything crashing around us and the trees thrashing about as if tornby a mighty rushing wind it was impossible to stand we had to sit on the ground bracing with hands and feet to keep from rolling over over in the midst of it we saw burst out from the top of the pali pall about amile amlie a mile mlle to the north ofus what we supposed tobe to be an immense river of molten 1 lava iva which afterward proved to be red earth it rushed down in headlong course and aarom across the plain below apparently patently ly bursting up from he khe ground throwing rocks high in the air and swallowing up everything in its way trees houses cattle horses goats and men all in an instant Ju stant as it were jt it went three miles mies in not more than three minutes and aud then ceased suene ope opo pointed to the shore and we e r ran an to where re we could kedit see bee it after ib the e hard shaking had ceased and all along the seashore bea boa shore frodi directly below us to punaluu Puna luu about three or four miles the sea was boiling and foaming furiously all red for about an eighth of a mile mild from the shore and the shore was wag covered by the sea we ve went right over to mahalas Na lialas halas hill with the children and our natives where we could see aee both ways expecting every moment to be swallowed up by the lava from beneath for it sounded as if it was sur gur surging ging and washing under our feet fe etall all ali the time and there were frequent shakes in places the ground was waa all cracked up and every rock or pali pall that could fall had bad fallen at hilo we saw a small stream of black smoking lava and outside of punaluu a long black point of lava slowly pushed out to sea and soon disappeared the first eruption gave no forewarning except perhaps a shower of sand the same bame writer write r in referring to it says the fire burst lip p out of the ground throy throwing ving a spray of red lava high in the air then a great column of smoke rose straight up thousands of feet and arched over to thelast the east in a few min jet was thrown up a little southeast of the first firt with its column of smoke soon followed by another jet and then by a fourth soon the red lava lavi began running down the sides of the mountain in four str streams gams in a ly and easterly direction about seven we began to hear a roaring sonn bonn sound bound which grew louder and louder until the air seemed to tremble with the incessant roar of the volcano the editor of the advertiser visited the scene of the eruption himself he describes one of the new craters the new crater when visited by mr swain was at least one and a half miles in extent nearly circular but constantly enlarging its area by the sides while the above gentleman wag waa looking at it a tract of bf at least five acres in extent tumbled in and was swallowed up like food for the devouring element the enlargement is going on mainly on the lower side toward the farm houses and it is thought thaties tha that tits its diameter is already about two miles four huge hugs jets or fountains were continually being thrown up out of this great crater ever varying in size and night hight some sometimes m es jae a apparently parent ly all joining together and n making I 1 ng one co continuous spouting a mile tulle and a half long from the lower side of the crater a stream of liquid rolling boiling lava poured out and ran down the plateau then down the side of the pali pall following the track of the government road then along the foot of the pali pall or precipice five miles to the sea this was the scene that opened before us as we ascended the ridge on friday at AA the left were these four grand fountains playing with terrific fury throw ing blood red lava and huge stones some as large as a house to a hight varying adyln constantly from to 1000 feet fee th the e grandeur of this scene no imagination agi nation can picture no one who has not seen it can realize then there was the rapid I 1 rolling steam rushing and tumbling like a swollen river down the hill over the precipice and down the valley to the sea surging and roaring like a cataract with a fury perfectly indescribable this river of fire varied from to 1 loo 0 00 or 1500 feet in width and when it is know known that the descent was 2000 2 feet in five miles the statement tat that it ran at the rate of ten miles an hour will vill not be doubted we nye waited till night when the scene was a hundred fold more vivid and grand the crimson red of the lava doubly bright and the lurid glare of the red smoke clouds that overhung the wh whole ae the roaring of the rushing stra stream ek m the noise of the tumbling rocks thrown gut but of the crater and flashes of electric a aitos ito gether made madd ib it stir suir P grand and showed that niazi man is nothing compared with his creator |