The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-04-13
TIE VOLCANIC ERUPTION At HoSoLr.
Lu-srLENpIp SIGHT.


The news from Honolulu j. 10 tie 18th ult
/ The famous volcano Mauna I.oa il again 10
state Of eruption. lie village Of Nalnau.
ali. lurty miles distant. on the sea coast, has
been nycrtun with the lava and DESTROYED
The inhabitants we're aroused III The mid.
nigh hanf ~ ihe hl-.ing asd roaring OF the
approaching lire. and had but just time to
save themselves. Tie crater Is from 500 10
500 feet aetpss - inbulh. 4 nc lava j. thrown
Up 10 Continuous columns. accompanied b.
i dense smoke, 10 tie heighl 81 10000 feet.
4 letter 10 the Alta aliipsnian. safs;
Dn sunday, January Esd, at n'elo,k, 2.
NJ, without any 81 tile usual premonitnry
phenomena u earthquakes, subierraneaa
spunds. Or spltry weather. the lava burst out
/ snmr three thousand feet from the summit If
Mauna l.Da, or ten Thousand feet above the
letrl Of the sea. and such WAS the rapldlty
1t flow, that belgre morning spectators at
4 Hilo. distance ol sixty miles from the erup.
tinn, were Of opinion that The Lava bad run
distance d twenty 1--WE miles down tie noun.
/ tain side.
I his eruption is declared BY old residents
1 10 b. greater III volume, and more magnh-
cent II appearance, than any previous me
thst can BE- remembered. Al Lahaina, dis.
lance ii over one hundred miles irun tie
crater, Oh Saturday night. the 2glh January,
the volcano Was distinctly visible, illumina-
ting uHe.thlrl I'll tile heavens like that uF an
immense and nelghbnring conaagration and
lrnm elevated pnsiiluns, Il Il asserted that
the shnuts uf liquid lame could be stsn al
intervals. Al the immense eanldfnn hO.ied
and bnbbled.p The sra was lighted Up with
the reflection II the flame everywhere With.
IN one hundred miles II the crater, and lie
cpa.ling vessels enjoyed the advantage with.
nut tie presence 81 the full moon. Lots II
dead fish we're observed floating about ii the
neighborhood ul the islands. bOth before and
slnce ths commencement uf the eruption,
and the inference il, that they we're killed
BY submsrihc fires 81 heat connected with
the volcano. We Of Honolulu, have ex.
perienccd sensible change u climate, which
fact il also attributable 10 the eruption. I,y
last accounts, not far from one ihUusand
square miles Of the surface IL Tie Island u
Hawaii must have been covered bS the burn.
Ing lava, causing 4 great fareiaetion II alr
all over that space.
The eruption Is on tile west side ol Mauna
E 1Abdf ~ WFN AldttE ut HNe W tlHHl
hundred feet across, having formed there,
from which The liquid mass was nOlnentarlly
elected il immense jets 81 thousand to fl.
teen hundred feet high, and falling over The
sides. poured down towards Tie sea. This
IL reached IN the 5ist uIt., at place called
Wainanalii. about twelve miles 10 tie vest.
ward 81 kawaihae. and 10 miles from thr
crater. Here il DESTROYED native village,
and fine grove 81 cocoauut trees. running
out into the sea two miles and entirely Gil.
ing the little harbour.
The inhabitants u the hamlet were reused
from the " slunbefs 81 midnight by The
approach Of the liquid ERE, and had hardly
time 10 safe themselves. AZ this point die
stream i onls two hundred Yards In width,
and By last accounts had cooled over % The
surface, 20 that dne can walk over ID, At the
risk, however, of breaking the thin crust into
the still flowing stream beneath. Where the
ire meets water. . very splendid sight pre-.
sents itself, old ocean Kissing anil sporting
like huge sea serpent, and constantly send.
ing % clouds 81 steam and CASCADES or wa.
Ter. 4 second stream has started from the
cts,sr, and II last srtnqnts as fgDn,ns
down parallel Wi,h H. fir fo#.