Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-05-16
Great Volcanic Eruption and Earth
quakes.
SAN Francisco, May s.

DAN fRANCISCO, Nay ..
The bark Comet, from the Sandwich
Islands, brings us accounts OF terrible
volcanic eruption. Mount Loa, began
demonstrations OH March the 27th, and
ON the 28th over one hundred earth
quake shocks were felt at Milan. Dur
ing the two weeks following, to April
Is, two thousand earthquake shocks
occurred. At Waisc, China, the earth
opened in many places. A tidal wave
rolled sixty feet high, over the tops of
cocoa trees, quarter Of Il mile inland,
sweeping human beings, houses, and
every thing movable before it,
A terrible shock prostrated churches
and houses, killing many In all, one
hundred lives were lost, besides thou
sands Of horses and cattle. The craters
vOmited fire, rocks and lava, and river
Of red hot lava, FIVE or six miles long, flow
ed to the sea at the rate of ten miles an
hour, destroying every thing before it,
and forming an island in the sea. y
new crater, two miles wide, has opened,
and throws rocks and streams of fire a
thousand feet high. Streams of lava
rolled to the'sea, at one time iIlumina-
ting an extent of fifty miles. The lava
has pushed out from shore one mile at
Waischina. Three miles from shore
eoncal island rose suddenly, emitting a
column Of smoke, while the Kono packet
was passing, scattering mud Oh the YES
sci.
The greatest shock occurred April I'd.
prior to the eruption. There was
great shower of ashes and pumice dnr-
ing the shock The swaying motion of
the earth was dreadful. No person
could stand. In the midst of this tre-
mcndous shock an eruption of red earth
poured down the mountain, rushing
down the plain three miles in three mill
utes, and then ceased Then came the
great tidal wave. The earth opened
under the sea and REDEEMED the water.
The earth eruption swallowed 30 reronS,
and the sea many more. Great suffering
and terror prevailed in the whole region
affected. The sloop Live Yankee had
been dispatched with provisions, DC. to
rescue and relieve the suffering.
A Honolulu correspondent gives the
details ofvolcanic disturbances, showing
that the earthquake extended to all the IS
lands of the Hawaiian group, but no
damage is done except around Mauna
Loa. Numerous extensive land slides,
accompanied by other phenomena, dcs-
troying life and property The summit
and side of Il hill 1860 feet high, was
thrown thousand feet over the tops of
trees, and landed in valley below. The
gasSes that issued afterwards destroyed
vegetablesSand animal life. Bottomless
assures were opened i'll the mountain
sides; one lava stream flowed uDder
ground, breaking OFT in tour jets SIX
miles from the sea, and throwing lava
and stones 600 or ! 800 feet high. he
new island is thrown up 400 feet Igh,
and is ioined to the mainl3 nd by stream
of lava a mile wide. \ large stream oi
water has burst from the moutaIn "hcie
the earth eruption occurred. ne DaSe
of the volcano. about three hundred miles
in circumference. is desolated. About
half q million of property is destroyed.
Tho Kina Of the Sandwich Islands bad
issnod a DrocIamqtion for the relief
Of the sufferers. Many visitors had gone
from Honolulu, and will go from San
Francisco. The worst is thought to be
over. but the lava flow continues.
The earthquake shock at Hcarldsburg
last night awoke all the inhabitants.
Several shocks were felt in California
about the period of the outbreak in Hal
wango.