Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-06-25
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One Hundred LiyeRL j. Lost.--whole VII.
lages Destroy 49, Several Laws
streams Fl0wlng.Sn
From NE Honolulll,Adseiaiser Iath Of Apul.l
KEklAkENEuA BAY, April ~ .l1 IN w
reached here this morning AT 81 olclock. 4
find scene as our hit6esto favored al.
ands have not Witnessed sihcb khe. feet 81
foreigners touched their soil. sai "
The earthquake Of Thursday afternoon,
which was felt so,distinctly on Oahu, Maui
and Kanai, destroyed many lives, and even
whole villages
At Honoapo- (which is midway between
Waiohinu and Punaluu), sixteen natives
we're killed by the earthquake and tidal
wave which followed It, and swept them of
into the sea, Only two houses in the vii
lage were left standing.
AT Kealualu (the port of Waiohinu), sew
eral lives were lost by the tidal wave. )
At Punaluu, three deaths from the same
cause. The village of Waiohinu is all in
ruins, and about twenty lives are reported
as lost ll 4 iNi llDI II.NNi u
All the churches in the Kau district Tex
cept one or two frame houses) are pros
trated. ID t-8lle} $3.50
Mr., Pogue estimates the deaths in the
Kan district, as far as heard from, at over
two hundred. l '8srf 8 gro.
In Paliuka "a few miles beyond Waiohinu)
theIr were twenty deaths from the earth,
quake and 13 from the tidal wave SO in all
Charles N, Spencer and family, Capt
Haley and family, Mr., Vida, Rev. Mr.
Paris and family, Mr. Logan and family,
and probably others go down TO Honolulu
In the steamer, considering it unsafe to re-
main in this district Mr. Pogue and fam
lily have not left Kau, but will probably 20
down in the schooner Kona Packet. a
The eruption or lava flows commenced
yesterday, and one stream is flowing into
the sea about half way between Rap1a and
the South Point slirfitr oi1
Another stream is flowing on the Puma
side, that is said to consist Of mud and
sulphurous water only. Mr.. Lyman and
family have left for Hilo.
Our company will start tonight on o
sloop now lying here and sail down the,
coast, as we deem il. safer than to 90 over
land, and as more likely to furnish the best
view We hope to find the lava stream
tomorrow flowing into the sea. We shall
then go on To. Waiohihu, so US to see and
report from actual observation the condi-
ton of things. ~ f!7 'i'l ~ ti''
If q party comes up next week, the
steamer should be engaged to take them on
to Alualu harbofi (the port of Kau( from
whence they can visit the lava streams
either north or east Of that point Travel
ers, however{ must be prepared to ttough
it, and sleep anywhere and eat anything,
as probably no foreigners viii be found in
the district, jl JH !it'g'i -,
At midnight Qsst night we could clearly
see the lava stream from the steamer, flow
ing down the mountain side, and the whole
mountain illuminated as if large city was
burning '' ''''
P. STA person just in from Kau, near
brings the following authentic re-
port of the killed and drowned: at Paliuka,
80; MalIaka 13; Punaluu, A; at Honoapo,
27 Kamilo 3-total, go. More probably
will be found missing 1ii hItl'f
The greatest stconsternation exists through.
out the entire Kau district, and even here
in the Kona district But as the shocks
have sensibly decreased, and the flows have
begun, it is probable that the worst is now
over. .@iihNa l.H
The tidal wave referred TO is stated by
the natives to have been some ten or twelve
feet above the usual height. Then it rece-
ded at least eighteen feet (three fathons)
below low water mark. The great return
wave swept most of the houses from the
beach and drowned many. The sea rose
and fell eight different times. - d I.
This whole island is enveloped in, smoke,
so that it is impossibleyto see over two OF
three miles in any direction, and at times
hardly half a mile. DDive- gdf o. mo
We may be compelled to go on around
to Hilo, but shall hope to get back to this
point in time to meet the next weeks;
steamer.
!. At Waiohinu, on the road to Kiolakaa, a
crack has opened from one to seven feet,
extending to the beach and mauka as far as
the eye can reach One remarkable feature
of this is, that the ends Of the road, at the
chasm are not opposite each other, one
side having moved the width of the road
mauka Or makai l.g EIt.t ...
The southeast side and summit of the
hill at Kiolakaa was thrown distance of
o thousand feet over the tops of the trees,
landing in the valley below, the turf cover
ing the hill apparently tindisturbed.
1t is estimated that Thousand animals,
(horses, cattle, goats and Sheep were de-
stroyed at Keaiwa, from the POISONOUS gas
ses which issued from the hill at the time it
was thrown down.
On Kahuku, back of the church, is a
hole sixty feet in diameter, the bottom of
which cannot be seen.
The tidal wave swept over the tops of the
cocoanut trees along the whole line of the
coast. -.......
At Keaiwa, q land slide occurred which
buried 33 natives.
Over fifteen hundred shocks of earth
quake have been experienced within the
last ten days lr" glH
LETTER FROM KAU.
WMoDNo, Kau, Hawaii, April 8, 1868
DEAR SIR, --Kau is in mourning The glo-
ry is departed. The Lords hand is upon
US. Our village is almost in ruins As /
wrote to you in my last we were having
succession Of earthquake shocks These
continued in number and strength. Yes
terday, at a quarter to o'clock, we had a.
shock which sent destruction and death
throughout the district AS many as twen-
ty deaths have been reported, but l think
this may be exaggeration. By tidal wave
sixteen were said to have been swept away
and lost from one village. This may be SO
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