The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-05-14
Terrible Volcanic Eruption on the
Sandwich Islands.
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wich Islands, brings accounts OF
terrible volcanic eruption Mauua.
Loa began demonstrations March %.
On the 2Sth over one hundred earth.
quake shocks were felt. During the
two weeks following to April 18th,
two thousand earthquake shocks oc-
Cured at Wasohina. The earth
opened in many places.
A tidal wave sixty feet high rolled
over the tops Of the cocoa trees u
quarter Of mile inland, sweeping
human beings. houses, and everything
movable, before it, A terrible shook
prostrated churches and houses, kill.
ing many, In all, one hundred lives
were lost, besides one thousand horses
aud cattle.
The craters yomited FIRE, rocks and
lava. A river of red hot lava, five or
six miles lopg, flowed to the sea. at
the rate Of ten miles an hour, destroy.
ing everything before it, aud forming
an island in the sea.
A new crater, two miles wide, has
opened, aud throws rocks. and streams
of FIRE thousand feet high. Streams
of lava rolled to tho sea. At one
time tho illumination extended fifty
miles at night. The lava has pushed
out from shore one mile at Wayschina.
Three miles from shore, conical
island rose suddenly, emitting a col.
umn of steam and smoke while tho
Kono packet was passing, spattering
mud the vessel.
The greatest shock occurred April
I'd. Prior to the eruption, there was
a great shower Of ashes and punice.
During the great shock, the sway.
ing motion Of the earth was dreadful.
No person could stand. In tho midst
of this tremendous shock, an erup.
tion of red earth poured down the
mountain, rushing across the plain
three miles in three minutes, and then
ceased. Then came the great tidal
wave, and then the stream of lava.
The villages on the shore were all
destroyed by this wave. The oorth
opened under tho sea aud reddeued
the water, The earth eruption swal.
lowed up thirty persons aud the sea
many more.
Grcatsuaering and terror prevailed
in the whole region affected.
The sloop Live Yankee has been
dispatched with provisions, etc, to
the rescue and relief of the people.
SAN Francisco, May 8.
The Honolulu correspondent of tho
Bulletin gives details of the volcanic
disturbances, showing that the earth.
quake shocks extended to all the is.
lands of the Hawaiian group, but no
damage is known, except around
Mauua Loa, Numerous extensive
land slides accompanied the ether
phenomena, destroying life aud pro.
porty, The summit aud side of n
hill, 1900 feet high, was thrown
thousand feet over the tops of the
trees aud landed in the valley below.
! The gases that issued Ofterward do
stroyed vegetable ana am. ne. hGa
Bottomiess assures oneoed in the
mountain sides. One lava stream
flows under ground breaking out in
| four jets, six miles from the soa, aud
throwing lava and tones ten or lr-
teen hundred feet high. The new
island thrown up is four hundred feet
| high, and is now joiued to the main
land by stream OF lava a mile wide.
A large stream Of water has burst
from the mountains where the earth
eruption occurred, From the base
Of the volcano, space about three
hundred miles ia circumference, is
desolated. AT least half a million
dollars of property has boea destroy
ed.
The King Of the Sandwich Islands
had issued a proclamation for the re.
! lief Of the sufferers. Many visitors
had gone hom Honolulu, and will 60
I from San Francisco. The worst is
thought to DO over, but the lava How
continues grand spectacle.