The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-05-15
Terrible Volcanic EruptIOn-ThO thousands
of Enrthquakcs- Gteat Destruction of
Life Formation of n New Island
Rivers of Liquid FIRE.
SAN ERANcIsco, May 8.

SAN fRANCIsCo, May 8.
Tho bark COunct, from tho Sandwich
Islands brings accounts ol u terrible vol.
canic eruption. Mauua.L1a bagan dcmol-
strations March ~. o. the 2Sth over ole
hundred eartli.qu Ike shocks wcrc felt
During the two weeks following to April
l3th, two thousand carthqu, Ike shocks oc
Gu rcd at Waschiln. The earth opened in
many places.
A tidal wave sixty feet high rolled over
the tops of the cocoa trees quarter of a
mile inland, sweeping human beings, houses
and ever, thing movable, before it, \ ter
rille shock prosiratcd churches aul house s ,
K Hing many In alt, one hundred lives
were lost, besides enc thousand horses and
ca tie.
The Orators vomi ed fire, rocks an lava.
A river Of red hot lava five or six miles
long, Ilowed to the sea, at the rate of ten
miles an hour dcs royng everything be-
fore IT, and forming m island in th1 sea.
A new crater two miles wide. has open d 4,
aud throws rocks aud streams of lire
thousand feet high. Streams OF lava rolled
to the sea. At on time the illumination
extended fifty miles at night. Tno lava
has pushed out from shore one m le at
Wayschina. Three miles from shore u
| column of steam and smoio Will the K6no
packet va' passing, spIAtterims mud on ths
| vessel.
The greatest shock occurred April 81.
| Prior to tho eruption, there WAS a great
shower Of ashes and pumico.
| During the great shock, the swaying
! motion of the earth was dreadful. NJ per.
son could stand. In the midst of this tire.
mendous shock, All eruption of red earth
! lnrod down the mountain, rushing across
! tho plain three miles in three minutes aud
then ceased. Then came the great tidal
wave, aud then the streams ot lava. The
! villages ON the shore wore destroyed by
this wave. The earth opened undor the
s a and reddened tho water Tne earth
eruption swallowed up thirty persons aud
the sea many more.
Great suffering aud terror prevailed in
the whole region affected.
The sloop Live Yankee had been dis
patched with provisions, etc, to the rescue
aud relief of the people.
SAN FRNNcISco, May I.
Tho Honolulu correspondent OF t't
Balietm gives details of the volcanic dis
turhanccs, showing that the earthquake
shocks extended 10 all the islands OF thu
. Hawaiian group. but no damage is known
except around Maua Loa. Numerous ex
teusive land slides accompanied the 9th
phenomena, destroying life and property
The summit aud side of hill, ,5U0 fee
high, was thrown thousand feet owe
the tops of the trees aud landed in III,
valley below. Tho gases that issued after
ward destroyed vegetable and animal lite
Bottomless assures opened in the mOnn
tain sides. Ono lava stream lllwS under
ground breaking out in fonr Jets six mile,
from the sea, and throwing lava aitd stones
f, ten or hlteon hundred feet high. The ne,
l island thrown up is four hundred feet higl
. and is now ioiued to the main land by
! stream ni lava q mile wide.
A largo stream of water has burst fror
, the mountains where tho earth eruati o
occurred. From tile base of the volcan",
space about three hCulrel miles in crcrn
lrence, is deSnlatod. At least half millio
dollars o( property has heen destroyed.
81 The King oi the Sandwich lsl,nds ha
ssned a proclamation for tho relief OF th
sufferers Many visitors hhl gone froH
I Honolulu, aud will so from san FIancisc,
5 The worst is tho ught to be over, but th
! lava iliw continues grand spectacle,
i An earthquake shock at heHrl lsbur
last night, .awoko all the il habitant
: Several shocks were felt in California, abo,
4 the period of the outbreak in the SIndwiC
5 Islands.