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Show LAVA FLOOD POURING FROM MAUNA LOA Molten Stream Flowing Toward Sea, Fifty Miles Away, at the Rate of a Mile an Hour Honolulu, T. H. May 22. Mauna Loa volcano, which was In eruption last week ,hns broken out again. A flood of lava which burst forth lost night at an elevation of 7000 feet, is flowing down tho mountain side, travelling southwest nt tho rai of ubout a nillo an hour. Tho flood of lava has divided following1 fol-lowing1 two channels. Tho glow Illuminates Il-luminates tho entlro landscapo nt night. Newspapers can bo read by its light many miles away. Tho courso taken by tho lava Is that followed by tho last eruption about nine years ago. Tho sea is about fifty miles from the mountain in this illrecUon nnd there Is Httlo rproporty of value In betweon. |