The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-05-15
GREAT EARTHQUAKES IN SANDWICH
ISLANDS.


SAN FRASCIsco, May THE Comet
from the Sandwich Islands, brings ac-
counts of terrible volcanic eruption at
Mamma Leo, which began IFS de aIl So
t;ons March 18th. On the 2Sth there
were one hundred earthquakes. Inc
shocks were felt at Nilina. During the
| two weeks following, to April 18th, two /
thousand earthquake shocks had occur
red Mt Wavcliina, the earth opening III
many places.
J 4 tidal wave sixtyfc high rose over
the tops of the cocoa trees, quarter vi
n mile inland sweeping human beings
: houses and everything hioVaoie
fore it. lnoh
A terrible shock Frustrated clurch
: and houses, killing many In all, one
/. hundred lives were lost, besides thou-
q sands of horses and cattle. The craters
e yomited fire, rocks and lava. A river Oh
:, red hot lava, five or six miles long, now
II ed 10 the sea, at the rate OF ten miles per
|. hour, destroying everything oeiofo ~
IS and forming an island in the sea.
A new crater, two miles wide, opened
and threw rocks and streams OF tire d
thousand feet high, and streams OF lava
/ Il rolled TO the sea. At one time the llttl-
Of mination extended fifty miles at night
The lava was pushed out from the short
one mile at 9Wayehina. Three mlle:
IL from the shore, conical lsiiiila ros'
suddenly. emitting column OF steam
and smoke while the Knono packet wa
gA passing. spattcring mud on the vessel;
o The greatest shock occurred April 20
'' prior to the eruption. There was
C shower of ashes and pumice during til
D. great shock The swaying motion G
of the earth was dreadful. No pcrso
R could stand, in the midst OF the Ieiiiei
duous shock. An eruption OF red cart
Is F.. ,,o,,,n,I JnVCn tlo mountain, HuSAlll
IN across the plain three miles i'll a mlnut
Re- and then ceased; then came the gfei
or tidal wave, and then the streams OIL l;lN
The villages on the shore were a
destroyed by this wave.
S. The earth opened under the sea al
of redeemed the water. he cafth cru
81 tons swallowed thirty persons, and Il
sea many more. Great suffering al
'e"- terror prevailed in the whole region
eHt fectcd.
nd The sloop Live Yankee has be
od- dispatched with provisions, &C, 10 IL
Of cue and relieve them.
The Honolulu correspondence OF l
sic, BnlIetin %ives the details of the volcar
say, disturbances. showing that the cart
Re quake shock extended TO all inc islan
.tbe of the Hawaiian group, but no DANA
was known except around Mannl Ii
'c"- Numerous and extensive land slides
IN companied the other phenomena,
nee. stroying life and property.
rth The summit and >sside of q hill L.;
- feet high was thrown thousand I
x. -, over the tops of the trees and landed
the the valley below. The gases that
Miss sued afterward destroyed vegetable
itch animal life. Bottomless assures J
A., opened in the mountain sides. One
va stream flows under ground, bre
ing in four jets six miles from the 5
and throwing lava and stones ten
and fifteen hundred feet.
ooos The new island thrown UP is 4Oo
- ., high, and is now Joined to the III
~! land by stream of lava mile wide
Rev. A large stream of water has b'
Jus from the mountain where the ca
c. by eruption occurred.
ar; The base Of the volcano Is about
miles in circumference.
Par AT least half..a million of prop
lions, has been destroyed.
ON of The King of the Sandwich lsla
-, had issued proclamation for the
lief of the sufferers.
~, by Many visitors had gone from He
IA Fee lulu, and many will go from San
# and cisco. The worst is thought to be G
but the lava flow continues, crea
grand spectacles.