Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-06 | Page 7 | Many Square Miles in Hawaii Buried in Lava

If; , Many Square Miles in I Hawaii Buried in Lava . HILO, Island of Hawaii, T. H., fc, March 23. (By Mail.) Many square E . miles of country have been buried & fathoms deep by the tremendous lava W- ! , flows from Kilauea volcano, thirty-f thirty-f J two miles from here, which began r ' spectacular eruptions during the lat-;i lat-;i ter part of October, 1919, and are still continuing. 1 ' Several large rivers of lava are in t 4 action amid burning vegetation, giving i jj off a pungent "iron foundry" odor, ( vL' with, waves of intense heat. 1 ,.f Two s.pecies of lava are visible in all I directions, pahoehco, or smooth lava, and a-a, the rough variety. At one - " point a great heap of tho latter is advancing ad-vancing majestically tawards the sea at the rate of a hundred feet an hour. Throughout the length of the various va-rious flows are continuous successions of underground explosions, due to the violent escape of air confined in the I'- ' deep caverns. ,.. i Halemaumau, the pit of fire in Kll- t auea's crater, is spectacular to a dc-' dc-' gree. Hundreds of fountains of molten i lava are playing at a depth of 200 feet ! below the rim of the pit. nrt