Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-06-09

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W. G PAEKEE. Esg.-Ilaar Sar.
We have had = grea; a SaSter af Hilo.
On Thursday morning. the 10th inst.
about 4 O'Clock, the sea in the lav
was seen 10 rise and fall in an unusual
manner, and at A. NJ il swept in a
mighty wave, washing up and into
nearly all the stores in front of the
town, carrying off q great deal of
lumber and all the stone wall of the
Makai wharf. The perpendicular
hight of the wave, since ascertained
BY leveling, was IL feet 3 inches above
ordinary low water-mark. At Waia-
kea the damage was frightful. Every
house within hundred yards CT the
water was swept away. The steam
boat wharf and storehouse, Spencer
storehouse, bridge across the stream,
and all dwelling houses, we're swept
away in instant, and now lie in a
mass of ruins far inland. Five lives
were lost and numbers bruised and
had limbs broken. The body of one
woman was found by boats off Homo
laui. Boats of the American whale
ship Pacific. Capt. Smithers, lying
in the harbor, picked up six people
who were swimming for their lives in
the bay. The Pacific was lying in
four fathoms of water, but she was
grounding when the water receded,
and then would be whirled round and
round as the sea came in again. All
expected to see her drag ashore. The
sea continued to rise and fall all day.
I timed one of the tides in the morn
ing about o'clock, and from it's low.
est ebb to its full food was only about
four minutes. It rose about IA feet
perpendicular hight, in that time. In
the afternoon, in the space of one
hour, the sea rose and fell three times,
with hight above half tide of Z feet
1Oa inches and feet each tide. The
wave at Waiakea must have had a
perpendicular hight of 16 feet to have
taken the bridge and wharf where
they now lie. The water swept COM
pletly over the island, and the hos
pital there has disappeared.
Yours, in haste,
L. SEVERANCE.
The volcano of Kilauea has been
unusually active of late. A steamer
arrived at Hilo on the I'd inst. As
she passed down the coast on the fol-
lowing night the light of the crater
An Old Rock,
New YORK, June 4.-William G.
Tripler, who claims to have lived ten
years near where the steamer City Of
San Francisco went down, writes to
the Herald that the rock on which
she struck has been known for years.
He informed most of the old captains
on the Pacific Mail line of it's exist
enoe himself. In 1862 the British
ship Tartar went in search of it,
found it and made report of it. 1t
is seven or eight miles W. S. W.
from what are known on the coast as
the Bajos de San Nicholas, st. Mich
olas shoals. tits never quite exposed,
but in rough weather the sea breaks
heavily on it. 1t appears to be
solitary rock with deep water all
around it. In 1859 or 1860, the
steamship Washington, on her way
from Panama TO San Francisco,
struck On it and after her arrival at
san Francisco and being docked
large piece Of the rock vas found
sticking in her bottom
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