The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1868-04-29

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tilted over. hut not entirely thrown down.
The heavy stone wall at the makai end Of
Mr.. Pogue's yard, fronting the road, was
thrown down. The large Protestant stone
church was Knocked fat to the ground.
Nearly every house was more or less dam
aged, and most of the population fed to the
adjoining hills, where they encamped for the
night Widow Laanui's house was also
knocked down fiat, bet no one was injured.
From beyond waiohiuu, no reports have
reached Hilo up to this time.
During Thursday night, Friday and Friday
night, frequent shocks 81 and some pretty
sharp-and constant trembling of the earth
was felt throughout this region. On Satur-
day, the shocks decreased in frequency, but
the trembling continued all day. Saturday
night and Sunday were comparatively quiet,
but every now and then rap and tremble
would notify us that the connection below
had not yet subsidized. last night two light
shocks; this afternoon two more. and an in
termittent return to the trembling motion.
On Saturday noon Mr.. Richardson and his
men arrived from Kapapala, and reported
that when be passed the volcano Of Kilauea
the whole floor of the crater had sunk at
least 500 feet below its former level, and no
lava visible. On Saturday night, Judge Ly-
man and Rev. Mr.. Kauhane, with their fam
lilies, arrived from Keaiwa, and it was re-
ported that upwards of a hundred people,
old and young, were on the way from kau TO
Hilo and Puma, sufferers aud refugees from
the disasters OF the earthquake. Mr.. Coney,
early Sunday morning, dispatched number
of men loaded with food 10 meet these peo-
pie on the road, and succor them. The men
thus sent returned this afternoon, and re-
ported that out of about 30 refugees from
Kau, 80 had turned down into Puma from
olaa, and that they had relieved the wants Of
some 40 others, who would be in Hilo in the
course Of the evening, or tomorrow.
Aprl Last night, between IL o'clock
aud daylight, several right smart shocks
were felt here. l was awaked four times by
the shocks and the rattling of things in and
about the house. AT O'Clock, A. NJ, as
and Others were standing near the Waikiki
bridge, looking up at Maunaloa. Il heavy,
dense, dark column of smoke, deeply tiuged
with red at its base. rose from near the top
of the mountain, apparently from the south
ern side of Mokuaweoweo. Though after
wards the smoke grew thinner, yet it re-
manned visible for nearly an hour, with every
now and then that lurid glow of red at its
base which would indicate either the actual
burning lava itself, or its reflection.
l have just been told an incident that oc-
CURED at Ninole, daring the inundation of
( hat place. At the time of the shock on
Thursday, a man named Holoua, aud his
wife, nan out of the house and started for
the hills above, but remembering the money
he had in the house, the man left his wife
and returned to bring it away. just as he
had entered the house the sea broke on the
shore, and, envelOpiDg the building, first
washed it several yards inland, and then, as
The wave receded, swept it off TO sea, with
him in it. Being a powerful man, and one
Of the most expert swimmers in that region,
he succeeded in wrenehing off a board or
after, and with this as a papa hee-nalu, surf
board), be boldly struck out for the shore,
and landed safely with the return wave.
When We consider the prodigious height of
the breaker on which he rode TO the shore,
so perhaps co, feet), the feat seems almost
were it not that he is now alive to
lttest it, as well as the people on the hill
tide who saw him.
have heard further particulars of the mud
flow between Keiawa and Kapapala. II issued
rom both sides of the valley, instead of from
he Kapapala side only, leaving a narrow
strip untouched in the upper part of the val
ey, on which a native house stood, with
nan and his daughter in it, who were thus
he only ones that escaped. A little below |
his house the two steams joined, and max 1
ny a detour around the southern end of the |
ALLEY, went as far as Keaiwa church, and the |
loa trees below it, where they stopped. The 1
OINC win luCeC HNiN NJ~NANN .
rom the hills, and the speed with which they 1
lowed, is said by eye-witnesses to have been I
/ the rate at least of mile minute. The .
apidity was so great, even atthe very ex-
remity of the flow, that numbers of goats
which were fleeing for life were overtaken
Y it, and found a short time afterwards by
lr. Richardson, sticking by their hind legs
D the mud.
No one can form any idea of the intense
nervousness and anxiety which
ave prevailed sll over those sections of the
Stand from which we have beard, for the
lst week or ten days Few people have
Iept comfortably in Hilo from Thursday TO
unday, and even last night we were woke
p several times. II we could only learn
hat some large lava flow had appeared, flow
y largely, and flowing steadily, we should
xpect this continual shaking and trembling
, subside We have several reports, TO be
are, that fire has broken out in Kau, near
ahuku, back of Hiilea-uka; on the paahoe
oe desert, near the Nukupili hills; and on
le road from Kapapala to Keauhou. We
ave seen smoke and fire apparently issuing
-om Mokuaweoweo, or from the Kona side,
eyond, but they all seem to be intermittent
lighted up to-day, and extinguished to-
orrow-and the shaking and trembling of
lie earth find no relief from them. Unpleas-
I'd agtiating as the prolonged action of the
has been here, in Hilo, yet it is
OF circumstance TO the violence of the
rocks in Kau and, fear, in Kona. Several
socks have been felt this afternoon; one at
bout 2:15, was quite sharp, and Jared IN