The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1868-04-29

1 Of the south lake, including what was known
as the Cathedral, had eaycd In, and the lake
was some six times larger than before. A
large ehasm had opened in the neighborhood
of the north lake, near the lookout house,
running up into the woods, aud cutting of
the Ran road entirely. Between and P.
NJ, FIRE was discovered TO have broken out
in the old Kilauea crater, to the cast Of the
1 volcano. aud at the same time the lava beds
/ in the volcano seemed to have settled down
/ about 100 feet, as II the volcano had been
tapped. Mr. Porter attempted 10 visit the
/ old crater, but was Obliged to give it up on
I account Of the ehasms and cracks continually
/ opening and barring the way He got sEfi-
GENTLY near, however, to ascertain that that
old crater, which for ages has been extinct,
was now all aglow with burning lava, prob
ably drawn of from the volcano. The shocks,
explosions, opening OF new cracks and steam
holes in all directions, threatening to isolate
the Volcano House, large steam-hole right
in the gravel path in front of the house, and
chasm running all along the fence nearly
up to the stables, and the, so TO say, visible
grinding Of the rocks to powder by the con-
tinued action Of the earthquake, admonished
Mr. Porter that it was about time to leave
for Hilo, and he left.
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 tine Volcano House during
the day. and was returning in the afternoon.
While descending the pail to Keauhou, the
first shock occurred, precipitating an i'm
mense amount of earth, stones and boulders
down the pail after him. Escaping these, he
arrived on the plateau below the pail, and
looked in the direction of the village of Aqua,
but not house was 10 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 the paahoehoe, he met the men working
at Keauhou RAINING up mauka, who reported
that nothing was left OF Keauhou; that i'm
media;ely 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 were some l67 bales OF pull in store,
ready for shipment, all Of which was swept
away. They represent that the sea went up
as far as the two basaltic columns indicating
the road down to Keauhou-a depth of wave
of at least 40 to so feet. Mr.. Stackpole's
mule being tired, or unmanageable, he re-
turned on foot TO the Volcano House, dis
lance of Is miles, where he arrived in the
course OF the evening, and started for Hilo
in company with Mr. Porter. The laborers
went TO the goat ranch on the upper lands
for refuge. What number of lives, if any,
were lost at Aqua, is not yet known.
Kau, from KapapaIa to Waiohinu, and be-
yond so far as is at present known, seems 10
have suffered the most severely from the
on Thursday last. As near as
can ascertain from Judge Lyman, of kau,
from c. Richardson, one of the proprietors
Of Kapapala, and from Akau Hapai, the tax
of Hilo, who was in Waiohinu at
the time, and from others, the following is /
about as correct a report as has been OBJ /
tanned: All along that part of Kau the shock I
was intensely sharp and prolonged. Nearly I
every wooden house at Keaiwe, Pnnaluu,
Ninole, and beyond, were shot off their
foundations or tumbled over, and straw /
houses, with posts in tine ground, were torn /
10 shreds. At Kapapaia, the vault of the .
;istern, 100 barrels capacity, was shot off .
IN and shut together so that not vcstige /
was to be seen of it. The ground all around /
Kapapala WIS frightfully broken up in ridges,
,hasms and cracks, as vas also the case all .
llong that region as far as Honuapo, and
beyond.
Between Kapapala and Keaiwa is a small,
valley, making into the mount
Tins about one mile from the road, which
orms the diameter and outer boundary of it.
The valley formed large and nearly level
plain, and the mountain spurs surrounding
I were very steep, and quite lofty. Several
Inhabited houses were in this valley, and
hardly ever less than 500 head of cattle, be-
ongingto Reed & Richardson, besides sheep,
horses and donkeys AT the time of the first
hook, a hole opened in the side of the
mountain, on the Kapapala side of the val
ey, and shot out a stream Of mud aud water
U so large a volume, and with so great a
Orce, that in very few moments nearly the
L h,la Of that valley xaS buried hapeatb (,
With all who were living and moving on the
Vain Thirty-One persons, men, women and
hildren, are now known TO have persisted
nd been buried beneath this flow of mud,
nd nearly all the animals grazing on the
lain. The depth of this mud-fow is said
o be from about 100 feet, at the foot of the
mountain, to some or feet at the outer
dyes Of it, beyond and makai of the road.
At Punaluu, at the moment of the shock,
seemed as if an immense quantity of lava
ad been discharged into the sea some dis
lnce from the shore, for almost instantly
srrible commotion arose, the water boiling
nd tossing furionsly. Shortly afterwards,
tremendous wave was sweeping up on the
hore, and when II receded, there was
othing left of Punaluul Every house, the
ig stone church, even the cocOanut trees
II but two-were washed away. The num-
er of lives lost is not yet sscertained- All
tho were out fishing at the time persisted,
nd many of those ashore. A big chasm
pened, running from the sea up into the
fountain, down which it is said lava, mud,
-ees, ferns and rocks were rushing out into
le sea-
The same wave that swept away Punaluu,