The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1868-05-14


sAx FnAxuIsCn, May The bark Com.
a. from Sandwich IslaNsis, briH<a accounts
Of terrible yoIcAnic eruption ss Mauna Lao.
Il began March 9Th, and on 18th over 100
earthquake shocks wcfe FELT at Hilina. Du-
ring the|fw0 weeks following, 70 April 18Th,
100 shocks occurred a Wais Chira The
earth opeaed 10 many places 4 tidal wave
rose sixty feet high, cyertoppiug cocoa trees
= quarter Of mile inland, and sweeping
human beings, houses, and everything mova.
bic before Il. A terrible shock proslrntcd
churches and houses, killing many. One
| hundred lives were lost, besides thousands
Of horses and cattle. The crasers yomited
| FIRE, rocks and lava A river Of red hot IA
Va Ave Or ak miles Iong flowed 70 The sea,
| at q rate 81 ten miles a. houf, destroying
everything before Il ard forming en- islsnd
| in the seA. A new crater, two miles wide,
Oponed. which throws rocSs and streams Of
| fire. . fllonfand feet high. Streams Of lava
| rolled 20 The ven. All one time tho illumi.
nation extended fly miles at night The
! lava bus pushed out from shore one mile ut
| WAischira.
Three miles from the shore coral island
! rose, suddenly emitting a c6sumn Of steam
and aHsoke. while The kono paeIsci was tsas.
sing. scattering mud on the vessel.
The greatest shock occurred April 2nd. ~,
Prior 20 the erup,ionihere was a great show.
e. Of ashes and pasnice. Dnring the great
| shock the swmying motion Of the enrIh was
dreadful. No person could stand. ~ the
midst Of this tremendous eruption Of red
earth poured down the mountain, rushing
across the plain ihrea miles IN three minutes.
and then ceased. Then came the great tidal
wave and then the streams Of lava.
| The villages on the shore we're Ill destroy.
Cd bs this wave. The earth opened under
| The sea and Redeemed the water. The earth
eruption swallowed thirty persons, and the
sen many mure. Great su6ering aud terror
prevailed ~ the whole region affected A
nioapt Lave Yankee, has been dispatched
| wlsh provisions, he. 10 rescue and FeIieve
The sufferers.
HonolaIn cDrrcsronslence 10 the BuIls.in,
Of this city, gives the details Of the volcanic
disturbances, showing that the earthquake
ehecks extended 10 al the islands u The
IiAwaiian groHp. but no damage. ~ kAown,
except around Mauna Isoa. Numesons and
| extensive land slides. accompanied By Othcl
PlseH0wcna, 0ecnrrrl, destroying lie and
property. The mmmis and aide of = hill
Eileen hundred feet high were thrDwn 1
thousand feet over the topN oftrses and land.
Cd 10 the valley below. The gases that Is
sued afterwards destroyed vegetable and an
i=-.=l life. Fathomless assures opened in thu
mouuiain sides A lava stream fiows nnder
ground. breaking out IN 5sar Jets six mile.
from the sea, and throwing lava aud stones
ten Or fltccu hundred feet high.
Tha nav island thrown np 4 toar hundred
fee. nigh, anil i nov jaised 20 the main
lsnu ~ strcasm cf lawn milo wide. A
large stream 81 water has burst from Tho
mnunsain where The enrth evapsioas occar.
rcd. Tbs base ~ thu voirsne, alous iIrs
hundred nsiles IN cireemscreHce, iesiesDEaieti.
Al least halfa million Of property IL de-
sirnyed. The King u the snndwieh island
had issse'i proclamation fsr the relief ~
he nuaersrs Many visitors had gone iron.
Honoiala aud will v, frnm San Pnncisco.
The worst j. thought ~ h. over. lat The lava
aow coniinars, prosecuting grand sp~cia-
bic.
The earthquake shock ~ Heari.Ialmr9 iast
nighs awvks al the inhabisaais Sev. raj
shocks were fell In Cslifusnis abssui The pc.
rod Of the ouibrrsk 10 iIasaii.