Eureka Reporter | 1906-03-16 | Page 2 | Eruption of Volcano in the Samoan Islands

V flages destroyed by solid wall 0 molten lava which reaches far out into the sea honolulu the officers of the steamer sierra which has arrived here from sydney S W via sa moa report that the eruption of the volcano on the island of savall one p the samoan group continues on a large scale three villages have been completely destroyed including mala eola where was located the finest cocoa plantation on the island the residences of A king and barkeley Bar leley has been reduced to ruins and are a total loss the lava from the mo intrain Is flow ing into the ocean in a stream three quarters lu arters of a mile wide and twenty fave feet deep at the rate of twenty feet an hour at nighta solid wall of nolten lava five miles long may be een reaching tar out into the sea some distance ahead the sea nater Is boiling and the surf breaks aver the fiery stream the government recently chartered he steamer maori ito remove women ind from the zone of danger