The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-30
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b From Honolulu wesYhave the4fol-
lowing additional particulars of the
late eruptiors: 4
I At Keauhou, the following results
of the earthquake. on Thursday, have
been reported. Mr.. Stackpole, who
had charge of the place, had been up
to the Volcano House during the
day, and was returning in the after
noon. While descending the pail to
Keauhou, the shock occurred, pre-.
cipitating an immense amount of
earth, stones and boulders down the
pail after him. Escaping these, he
arrived at the plateau, below the
pail, and looked in the direction of
the village of Aqua, but not house
was to be seenl He then rode down
to the edge of the plateau, from
whence Keauhou ought to have been
in sight, but nothing of it could be
seen. Descending to Peheehoe, he
met the men working at Keauhou
running up Mauka, who reported that
nothing was left of Keauhou; that
Immediately after the earthquake the
sea had rushed in and swept of every
dwelling and store-house, and all
their contents, and that they had
barely escaped with their lives.
There was some 167 bales Of pulu in
| store, ready for shipment, all of
which was swept away. They repre-
sent that the sea went up as far as
the two bnsaltic columns indicating
the road down to Keauhou-a depth
of wave at least forty to fifty feet
AT Punaluu, ut the moment of the
shock, it seemed rs if an immense
quantity of lava had been discharged
into the sea at some distance from
the shore, for almost instantly ter
rible commotion arose, the water
boiling and tossing furiously. Short
ly afterward, tremendous wave was
sweeping up on the shore, and when
it receded there was nothing left of
Punaluu. Every house, the big
stone church, even the cocoa-nut
trees-all but two-were washed
away. The number of lives lost is
not ascertained. All who were out
fishing at the time persisted, and
many of those ashore. A big chasm
opened, running from the sea up
into the mountain, down which, it is
said, lava, mud, trees, ferns and
rocks were rushing out into the sea.
The same wave that swept away
Punaluu, also destroyed the villages
of Ninole, Kawaa and Honuapo.
Not house remains to mark the Site
of these places at Honuapo, where
small "hale halawai," on the brow
of the hill, above the village, stood
Oh Friday last. The large cocoa-nut
grove at Honuapo was washed away.
as we'll as that ut Punaluu. A part
of the big pail at Honuapo, on the
road to Wajohinu, had tumbled into
the sea, and people coming from
thence are now obliged to take the
mountain road through Hileajnka.
The sea swept Kaalualu on Thurs
day last, as it had swept Honuapo
and the other places along the coast,
washed away several houses and
killed q number of people-how
many is not yet known. The earth
has been shaking almost constantly
and severely every day and night.
A large land slide occurred on the
West side of Waiohinu Valley, near
where Swann's tannery was formerly
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mountains above, but now had come
down on the low lands between
Kahuku and Waiohinu, where it left
on Monday morning, a large hole,
sixty feet in diameter, and opened on
the flat below Kahuku, with no bot
tom visible from the brink of it,
and emitting quantities of sulphuric
vapor.
I have just been told an incident
that occurred ut Ninole during the
inundation of that place. At the
time of the shock, on Thursday,
man named Holona and his wife ran
out of the houEe and started for the
hills above; but, remembering the
money he had in the house, the man
left his wife and returned to bring it
away. Just as he had entered the
house, the sen broke out on the
shore, and, enveloping the building,
first washed it several yards inland,
and then, as the wave receded, swept
it off to sea with him in it, Being
q powerful man, and one of the most
expert swimmers in that region, he
succeeded in wrenching off board
OF Il rafter, and with this as n papu
heenulu (surf board) he boldly struck
out for the shore, and landed safely