| Show A VOLCANIC BARNUM AND BAILEY young america will drop anything to run to a fire in some parts of the worl world d Hawaii wall for example one ne also drops every everything thine w t run toa to a volcano eruption unless be b already la Is too close for or comfort then bo fie ranor from it have yi 71 y i ever wondered what R 4 can in action looks like here is I 1 a description not by a scientist but by a young epman who went tn to hawaii to live just before mauna loae loas terrific eruption last year I 1 it adms us as 11 if alavi hawaii all though email small must liae haie buetto much attention lon nd so ever so often ehe she explosively project projects herself liar salt into the arena of the happenings wrote sirs SIM shirle foster alien allen not content with her alcare in the big show in ili europe she decided to stage a first class side show va alli her own and the two volcanoes mauna loa and Itt laues have certainly aone their best to make it the big ing gest enow show a just a word ord about the geography of the place jn in the tha first place so many people seem to think the word honolulu bracell bra cels all there Is to the islands vand ind in the second place the general conception seems to be that the volcano Is in located in honolulu lulus s back ard or as it were rind that we homol tako take our dally daily exercise by running up to the he crater every morning before breakfast honolulu Is located on the island of oahu third island in size in tte the stoup o 0 while the volcano or rather volcanoes are located on hawaii the largest find and youngest island v iab ill an area of more than square miles which lies nearly 2 miles southeast of oahu abe first indication of volcanic it activity ans the presence of it peculiar cauliflower shaped cloud clond hanging bringing over the mountain three daya days later on september 1 SO 9 the whole beav heavens ns were lit up with an apricot glow when from a I giuy kaz vent in abil mountain a aide ide a flood of mo me ton tan lava wae was bellied forth spreading out into a preat shallow stream it came roaring doan the mountain elope slope burning forest car ring huge trees and immense boulders on its surface swee pip everything before it anith ith a speed varying from one to twenty miles an hour according to t coun 1 it was pashing oer oner it br ned out until it was nearly a milt in edth after wiping out the government belt road razing tele 11 plane poloa poles r id destroying a amount of property the red hot lava tumbled over a high precipice and plunged bi basing bising sing into the sen sea A number of excursions div were made in october from Ilono honolulu lulu tin in approaching pro aching the flow fron the ea in the early evening the glow croul fron the lava nas s visible foe for many 1 before alika was reached drifting within 2 yard yards of the point where here ti it s liquid rock vins rush ing into the sea the scene stretching be tore fore one was ae slowly ae atie haie haze from the blaming for ests eats which hung over the source 20 miles any auy lifted and river of me stool cut out in its full glor glory holding one speechless and spellbound pell bound le leap p ing from pall to i alley rushing uphill 11 and roaring dovin donn tho the fiery hood thundered don the mountain slope stop at curra ing on its b bissol isom rocs docs as an big as houses that were nere tossed about as no if they were nero roero mere pebbles A As th of blazing laa lain neared the it appeared to more inore speed taking R final plunge ocr oi er a ak foot cliff at a terrific rate mid look ing tor for all the wonlu like a fiery NI agara aa As the red hot lava came curne in contafi t fill the water vinter great column of steam and gas like huge matera pouts spouts were ere force i hundreds of feet into the air boulders hurled into epam exploded with thunderous r ports 1 into auras of red and green lil billits lits while flaut flashes les of what looked uke lightning added to the c chsce |
