The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-05-14
Sandwich Islands,
Thousands of Earthquakes
Great Destruction of Life.-Riv
ers ofLiquid Fire.
CAN FpANc1sco Nav 8

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8.
The bark Comet, from the Sand
wich Islands, brings accounts Of s
terrible volcanic eruption. Mauna
Loa began demonstrations Marct
27. On the 2Sth over one hundred
earthquake shocks were felt. Dur
ing the two weeks following tc
April 18th, two thousand earth
quake shocks occurred at Waschi
ma. The earth opened in many
places,
A tidal wave sixty feet high roll
ed over the tops of the cocoa trees
q quarter of mile island, sweeping
human beings, houses, and every
thing movable, before it. A terrible
shock prostrated churches and
houses killing many. In all, one
hundred lives were lost, besides one
thousand horses and cattle.
The craters vomited fire, rocks
and lava. A river of red hot lava,
five or six miles long, flowed to the
sea, at the rate of ten Eliles an hour
destroying everything before it, and
forming an islald in the sea.
A new Crater, two miles wide, has
opene1a, and throws rocks and
streams of fire a thousand feet high
Streams of lava rolled to the sea-
At one time the illumination exten-
ded Fifty miles at night. The laws
has pushed out from shore one mile
at Waschina. Three miles from
a conical island rose suddenly, emit
ting a column Of steam and smoke
while the Kono packet was passing
spattering mud on the vessel.
The greatest shock occurred April
I'd. Prior to the eruption, there
was great shower of ashes and pun
ice.
During the great shock, the sway.
ing motion of the earth was dread,
full. No personscould stand. In
the midst of the tremendous shock,
an eruption of red earth poured
down the mountain, rushing across
the plain, three miles in three min.
utes, and then ceased. Then came
the great tidal wave, and then the
streams of lava. The villages on
the shore were all destroyed by this
wave. The earth opened under the
sea and reddened the water. The
earth eruption swallowed up thirty
persons and the sea many more.
Great suffering and terror prevail
ed in the whole region affected.
The sloop Live Yankee had Eeen
dispatched with provisions, etc., to
the rescue and relief Of the people.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7.
The Honolulu correspondent of the
Bulletin gives details Of the yolcan-
ic disturbances, showing that the
earthquake shocks extended to all
the islands Of the Hawaiian group,
but no damage is known except the
Mauna Loa. Numerous extensive
land slides accompanied the other
phenomena, destroying life and
property. The summit and side OF
hill, 1,5O0 feet high, WAS thrown q
thousand feet over the tops of the
trees and landed in the valley below.
The gases that issued afterward de-
stroyad vegetable and animal life.
Bottomless fssures opened in the
mountain sides. One lava stream
flows under ground breaking
out in four jets, six miles from the
sea, and throwing lava and stones
ten or fifteen hundred feet. The new
island thrown up is four hundred
feet high, and is now Joined to the
main land by stream of lava a mile
wide. e.ss --, ...-..-
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 in circumference, is
deselated. At least half a million
dollars of property has been des-
troyed.
The King of the Sandwich Islands
had issued proclamation for the
relief of the sufferers. Many visitors
had gone from Honolulu, and will
go from San Francisco. The worst
is thought to be over, but the lava
flow continues a grand spectacle.
An earthquake shock at Hearls
burg, last night, awoke all the in
| habitants. Several shocks were felt
in California, about the period ot
the outbreak in the Sandwich
| Islands.