North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-05-13

SAN FRANc1ro, May Z.

,a@ s-s. San Francisco, May.
The bark Comet, fr IN the Sandwich L..
lands, brings IN account of q terrible vol.
canic eruption. Mauna Loa began its de-
monstrations March ~. On the 18th over
hundred earthquake shocks were felt ut
Nilina. During the two weeks following,
to April IL two thousand earthquake
shoe 8 occurred. At Waychina the earth
opened in many places. A tidal wave,
sixty feet high, came in, covering the tops
Of coaca trees, Il quarter of a mile inland,
and sweeping human beings, houses, and
everything movable before it. A terrible
shock Frustrated church and houses, kill
ing many. In all, one hundred lives were
lost, beside thousands of horses and cattle.
The craters vomited IRE. rocks, and lava.
A river Of red hot lava. Eve or six miles
long, flowed to the sea ut the ute OF ten
miles an hour, destroying everything be-
fore it, and rming an island in the sea,
[ A new crater two miles wide opened.
and throws rocks and streams oil fire II
thousand feet high. The streams of lava
rolled to the sea, and at one time the iliu.
mination extended fifty miles ut night.
The lava has pushed out from the shore
one mile
| con Cal island rose suddenly, emitting a
column OF steam and smoke, while the
kono packet was passing, spatterinS mud
| ON the vessel. &8a
The greatest shock occurred April 81,
| Prior to the eruption there was a great
shower of ashes and puric during the
great shock, the swaying motion oil the
earth was dreadful. No person could
! stand In the midst of the tremendous
shock, an eruption of red earth poured
down the mountains, rushing across the
| plain three miles in three minutes, and
then ceased. Then came the great tidal
wave, and then streams OF lava. The vii
lagos Of the shore were all stroyed by
this wave. The earth opened under the
sea and redeemed the water. The earth
eruption swallowed thirty persons, and the
sea many more. Great suffering and ter
ror prevailed in the whole region affected.
A sloop, the - Live Yanxee,' had been
dispatched with provisions, ETC., to rescue
| and relieve.
$3.50 an. LATER.
! San Francisco, May 7.-Honolulu cor
respondence of the Bulletin gives details OF
| the volcanic disturbances, showing that
the earth gu Ike shocks extended TO all the
islands Of the Hawaiian group, but M
damage is known except around Mauna
Lua.
Numerous extensive land slide accompa-
MED the other phenomena, destroying life
and property. The summit and side of a
hill, fifteen hundred feet nigh, were thrown
n thousand feet over the tops Of trees and
landed in the valley below. The gases
that issued afterward destroyed vegetable
and animal life.
| Bottomlcss assures opened in the noun
tain des. One lava stream flows under.
ground, breaking out in four Jets six miles
from the sea, and throwing lava and stones
ten or fifteen hundred feet high.
The new island thrown up is four hun
dred feet high, and is now Joined to the
mainland by a stream of lava a mile wide.
| n large stream of alter has burst from
the mountain where the earth eruption oc.
CURED. The base OF the volcano, Tor alb u,
three hundred miles IN circumference. is
deso|ate. At least half million Of pro.
perry is destroyed.
The King OF the San witch ISL nds h, 4
issued u proclamation for the relief OF the
sufferers. Many visitors hid gone from
Honolulu, nd will 80 from San Francisco.
The worst is thought to be over, but the
! lava flow continues to be grand specta.
| Gle.
An earthquake shock at Heraldsburgh
| last night awoke all the inhabitants. Sew.
cral shocks were felt in California about
the same period.