The Portland daily press., 1868-05-09
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PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.
Saturday Morning, May 9, 1863
SANDWICH ISLANDS.
Volcanic EruptiOns and Earth
quakes.
Wonderful and Terrific
Scenes
Immense DestrstctiOnOf Life
and Property.
Islands Formed i'm the
Sea. 7.
The King Issues orders for the
Relief of the Sufferers.
The King Issues Orders for the
Relief of the Sufferers.

SAN FRANCISCO, May THE barque Comet
from the Sandwich Islands brings accounts OF
a terrible volcanic eruption by Maunooa.
which began its demonstrations on March q
or 49, One hundred earthquake shocks were
felt, and during the two weeks following. to
April 10, two thousand earthquake shocks oc-
Cured. AT Waischina the earth opened in
many places and the tidal wave, sixty feet
high, rose over the tops of the cocoa trees for
quarter of mile inland, sweeping human be-
Ings, houses and every thing movable before it.
The terrible shock Frustrated churches and
Killed many persons In all one hundred lives
were lost, besides thousands of horses and cat
tie. The craters vomited fire, rocks and lava
and river OF red hot lava five or six miles
long flowed ten miles per hour, destroying ev-
erything before it, and forming an island in the
sea , and new crater two miles wide opened
and threw rocks and streams of fire one thou
sand feet high. Streams of lava rolled to sea-
AT one time the illumination extended fifty
miles at night. The lava has pushed out from
shore zone mile. At Warischina three miles
from shore, a conical island rose suddenly
emittinga column of steam and smoke, while
the Kono packet was passing scattering mud
on the vessel. The greatest shock occurred
April I'd. Prior to the eruption there was a
shower OF ashes and pumice. During the
great shock the swaying motion of the earth
was dreadful, so that no person could stand
In the midst of this tremendous shock erup-
tons OF red earth poured down the mountain,
TuSnlug across Ine pam three miles IN three
minutes and then ceased. Then came the
great tidal wave, and then streams of lava
The villages on the shore were all destroyed w
this wave. The earth opened under the sea
and Redeemed the water. The earth eruptions
swallowed thirty persons and the sea MANY
more Great suffering and terror prevailed il
the district, and the whole region was affected
The sloop Live Yankee has been despatched
with provisions to rescue and relieve.
Honolulu correspondence of the Bulletin
gives the details of the volcanic disturbances
showing that the earthquake shocks extended
to all the islands of the Havana groupe but
one. No damage is known to have occurred
except around Maunoloa. Numerous extern
sive land slides accompanied the phenomena,
destroying life and property. The summit and
side OF the kill, 1900 feet high, were thrown a
thousand feet over the tops of the trees and
landed in the valley below. The gases that is
sued afterwards destroyed both vegetable and
animal life Bottomless assures opened in the
mountain side, and lava stream flows under
the ground, breaking out in four lets six miles
from the seaand throwing lava and stones 1000
and 1900 feet high, and is now Joined to the
main land by a stream of lava mile wide. A
large stream of water has burst from the noun
tain where the earth eruption occurred The
base of the,yolcano is about thirty miles in cir
conference. AT least half a million dollars
worth of property is destroyed.
The King of the Sandwich Islands had issu-
ed proclamation for the relief of the suffer-
erS
Many visitors had gone from Honolulu and
will go from San Francisco.
The worst is thought to be over, but the lava
How continues If is GRAND cnaotaoIa