The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-06-18
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GREAfESf ERUPTIoN ON REC0fR

WNG LIVE" A|naNs@a w mole VII
lages Destroyed - Several Law
streams F1OwInR
Iron the HonoIaluA advertiser, 18th Of Apft.f
K~EAIAKEAKUA BAY, April 18--12- NV
reached here this mofainq attBeB ciock 3
find a scene as our hitherto favored isl
ands hnve not Witnessed since the feet 0
foreigners touched their soil.
The earthquake Of Thursday afternoon
which was felt so distinctly on Oahu, Mau
and Kauai, destroyed many lives, and eve
whole villages.
Al Honoapo (Which is midway betweei
Waiohinur and Punaluu), sixteen native
were killed by the earthquake and tida
wave which followed 1t, and swept them oil
into the sea. Only two houses fnsthea vi
lage were left standing. Ht b.. ...d.
AZ kealualu uhe port Of Waiohinu), sey
heral lives were lost by the tidal wave.
At Punaluu. three deaths rom the sam
cause. The village of Waibhiuu is all il
ruina and about twenty lives are reportn,
as lost. 4r 80
An the churches in the Kau district fe2
cept one or two frame houses) are pros
trated ua faIIl edf rrWu rf.
Mr.. Pogue estimates the deaths in tn
Kan district, as far as heard from, at owe
two hundred. 'Hl1A
In Paliuka Ia few miles beyond waiohim
their were twenty deaths from the earth
quake and IS from the tidal waye-33i in all
Charles N, Spencer and family, Capt
Haley and family, Mr.. Vida, Rev. Mr.
Paris and family, Mr.. Logan and fhmilv
and probably others go down 10 Honolulu
in the steamer, considering it unsafe to re
main in this district. Mr.. Pogue and fam
lily have not left Kau, but viii probably ~
down in the schooner Kona Packet u az
The eruption or lava flows commenced
yesterday, and one stream is flowing int
the sea about half way between Rapna and
the South Point.
Another stream Is flowing on the Punr
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 q
sloop now lying here aud snil down the
coast, as we deem IL safer than TO 20 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 Waiohinu, so rs 10 see and
report from actual observation the condi-
ton Of things.
If a party m up next week, the
steamer should be engaged to take them on
to Alualu harbor 1.-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 rough
IL y and sleep anywhere and eat anything,
az probably no foreigners will be found In
the district.
At midnight (last mighty we could clearly
see the lava stream from the steamer, flow
ing down the mountain side, and the whole
mountain Illuminated rs if n large city was
burning.
p, S,-A person just in from Kau, near
Kakuka, brings the following authentic re-
port Of the killed and drowned: az Paliukn,
49, Malnka, 10; Punaluu, a; At Honoapo,
%; Kamilo, 3-total, so. More probably
will be found missing.
The greatest CONSERVATION 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.
The tidal wave referred TO is stated by
the natives 10 have been some ten or twelve
feet above the usual height. Then II reee-
ded ut least eighteen feet three fathoms)
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.
This whole island is enveloped in smoke,
so that it is impossible to see over two or
three miles in any direction, and at times
hardly half a mile.
We may be compelled to go on around
to Hilo, but shall hope 10 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.
ayNan1tnn 10 tha Iaaal aR1 ,,n.lr. .. E.-a-
the eye can reach. One remarkable feature
Of this is, that the ends of the road, ut the
chasm, are not opposite each other, one
side having moved the width Of the road
mauka or makai.
The southeast side and summit Of the
hill at Kiolakna was thrown q distance Of
q thousand feet over the tops Of the trees,
landing in the valley below, the turf cover
ing the hill apparently undisturbed.
II is estimated that q Thousand animals,
(horses, cattle, goats and Sheep were de-
stroyed at Keaiwa, from the poisonous gas
SEES 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
coconnut trees along the whole line of the
coast. '|H
At Keaiwa, O land slide occurred which
buried 80 natives.
Over fifteen hundred shocks Of earth
quake have been experienced within the
last ten days.
TIE Rom KAU.
WAoDISo, Kau, Hawaii, April 3, 1865
DEAR SIR,-Kau is in mourning. The glo-
ny is departed. The Lords hand is upon
US. our village is almost in ruins. As l