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Show Mauna Loa Lava Stream Flowing On Undiminished H1LO. T, H . Oct. 3 (By The V.MO-ciatcft V.MO-ciatcft Tress ) A party of five prominent promi-nent men returned here today with a report re-port of the flndinp oi tlir Mauna .o lava stream, which now Is flov. ing undiminished undi-minished thirtv miles to th- sea. The men reported that the pot within n mile of the fissure on Mauna Ioa ?lope, K50O feet above the 1916 eruption. They estimated that the gyier is tliree hundred hun-dred feet high and three hundred feet j In diameter. j It rould be heard for miles and sounded sound-ed like the exhausts of ten thousand loeo-I loeo-I motives, they said The party, headed by Professor Thomas Jaggar, director of the Klleaue observatory. ob-servatory. Is etlll out on the desolalo mountain side in his study of the eruption. erup-tion. There has been no report froro him and It Is presumed that he Is Investigating Investi-gating at close rung. The lava has formed :in extensive OJtpe extending a quartei of a mile out into the j ocean. The lava Is still flowing In great volume a small tidal wave Thursday I on the Kona coast endangered the lives of several persons. One woman. Mrs. Carl Carlsmlth. wife of a Hilo lawyer, was swept a quarter of a mile to set. but was rescued by n Hawaiian in i canoe. Carlsmlth was liadly bruised on the rocks and his nutomobite was wrecked j by the wave. The disturbance is attributed to a poi-sible poi-sible subsidence of the ocean bed from the sudden weigiit of the laa. The men who saw the flowing lava aald they witnessed a solid column of liquid lava maintaining a steady flow. The lava is flowing for the most part through wild and desolate country, covered cov-ered by rough lava formations from former for-mer eruptions. The damage Is very Might. |