Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-05-20
The Late Earthquake.

A San Francisco dispatch, of the l,h in
slant, gives the following further particulars
OF the earthquakes, of which we have had
brief account by telegraph:
Tie bark Comet from Sandwich Islands,
brings accounts of terrible volcanic eruption
at Mauna Ioa. 1t began March 9th, and
on the 18th over one hundred earthquake
shocks were felt at Nina. During tue two
weeks following, 10 April l3, 1000 shocks oc-
Cured at Waischira. he earth opened in
many places 4 tidal wave rose sixty feet
high, oycrtopping cocoa trees quarter OF
mile inland, and sweeping human beings,
houses, and everything movable ce:ore 1t.
terrible Shock prostrated churches aud houses
killing MANY. One hundred lives were lost,
bes;des thousands of horse; and cattle. The
cra,crs von,ited fire, rocks and lava. a river
oi red-hot lava, five or six miles long, flowed
TO the sea at the rate OF ten miles an hour,
destroying everything before it and forming
IN island in the sea. A new crater, two miles
wide, opened, which throws rocks and streams
oe fire a Thousand feet high. Streams of lava
rolled to the sea. At one time the iilumlna
ton extended fifty miles at night. The lava
has pushed out from shore one mile at Wais
chira.
Three miles from the shore a coral island
rose suddenly emitting q column OF steam
and smoke, while the Kono packet was pass
Ing. SCATTERING mud on tho vesse.
Tie greatest shock occurred April ID. Prior
to the eruption there was great shower OF
ashes and pumice. During the great shock
the swaying motion of the earth was dread
ful. No person could stand. In the midst
of this, g. tremendous eruption OF led Garth
poured down the mountain, rushing across
ihc plain three miles in three minutes, and
then ceased, then came the great tidal wave
and then the streams of lava.
The villages on the shore were all destroy
cd by this wave. The earth opened under
the ser, and redeemed the water. The earth
eruption swallowed thirty persons, and thN
sea many more. Great suffering and terror
prevailed in tne whole region affected. A
loop olive Yankee) has been dispatched with
provisions, &C., to Rescue and relieve tue sui
icrers.
Honolulu correspondence to the Bulletin,
of th. city, gives the details of the volcanic
disturbances, showing that the earthquake
shocks extended to all the islands OF the
Hawaiian group, but no damage. as known,
except around Mauna Loa. Numerous and
extensive land slides, accompanied by other
phenomena, occurred, destroying life and prop
erty. The summit and side of bill fifteen
hundred feet high were thrown thousand
feet over the tops Of trees, and landed in the
valley below. The gases that issued after
wards destroyed vegetable and animal life
Fathomlcss iissures opened in tie mountain
sides. A lava stream flows under ground,
breaking out in four jets six miles FROM the
sea. and throwing lava and stones ten or fif-
teen hundred feet high.
The new island thrown up is four hundred
feet bigh, and is now joined to the main land
by stream Of lava mile wide. A large
stream Of water has burst from tie mountain
where the earth eruptions occurred. The
base of the volcano, about three hundred
miles in circumference, is desoated. At least
half million Of property is destroyed. The
king of the Sandwich Islands has issued a
proclamation for the relief Of the sufferers.
MANY visitors had gone from Honolulu, and
will 70 from San Francisco. The worst is
thoug ght to be over, but the lava flow con-
tinues, presenting grand spectacle.
The earthquake shock at Heraldsburg last
night awoke all the heinhabitants. Severa! shocks
were felt in California about the period of the
outbreak in Hawaii.