The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-06-07
UAWAITS TIDAL WAVE.
FURIOUS ACTION OF THE SEA-
MIGHTY WAVES RUSHING ~
UPON 4 TOWN.
An American Whaler's Peril--BrIl'
liant Eruption From the Crater
Of kilauea.

OF hlIAuta.
! SAN Francisco. May Sl,-Thc grea
Hawaiian tidal wave Of May 10 appears :,
have occurred simultaneously all over lh'
group. A. kahauli, on the Island e
Mani. st lr.ta AL unusual subsideuce ot sAt
sea wa. noticed abou. ( 80 o'clock IN IL,
morning. An observer Ia this :own, who
was near the harbor, SAW reefs exposed,
and Captain Smi.Lers, otghe whaling bSF"
Pacific, which was lying n the Time al
Hilo Bay. eorroborAtes this. An eye-"Il'
ness a. Iila writes tha. on Thursday morn,
| ing. the 10Th inst. about { O'Clock, the sea
in the bay was seen % rise aud fall in an
unusual manner, and al O'Clock 10 swep.
| in mighty wave washing up and in.o
nearly all the stores IN the from: Of the
town, carrying Of a gyea. deal OF lumber
and all the s.one.wau Of the Makai wharf
The perpendiculav hcish. OF the wave has
since been asctr,aiued By lcve.liaE tube
| 70 have been y Zee. iache. above The or,
airs-v log>ws,e- mark. ~ Wa.ahCa the
damage was lrigh,fal Every house with
| in loo yards of The water was swep! away.
| The s.esmbca: wharf srd s.1rehoasc.
Spenccrs storehouse. the bridge across tie
stream and all the dvc,!iug,Eouses We're
swept away in an ias.au. and now lie a
mass Of ruins far inland Five lives We're
| lost and number Of people were bruised
and had limbs broken The body Of u wo,
man was found by boats Of llolii. The
| boats Of the American whaloship Pacific,
Captain Smiihers, lying in tho Aar5o-,
picked up SIX people who we're swimming
/ for their lives in the bay. The Pacile vas
/ living in four a.homs of water, bu. she
grounded when the sea rcceded and then
would be whirled round and round SIS the
sea came in again. All expected 50 see
| her drag ashore. The sea continued O.
rise and fall all day. timed enc ot the
tides in the morning about o'clock, and
from il lowest ebb 70 It's food was only
about four minutes. Ii rose about four
teen fee: perpendicular heigh.in lha.tjmc
/ In the afternoon in the space o! one Loui
tho sea rose and fell three times with O
height above high tide level of ten and f.
half feet each timc. The wave o. Waiakc'
mus. have had perpendicular height O
sixteen feet to have taken the bridge anl
wha-f where they now lie. Tho waite,
swept completely over Cocoanut Island
and the hospital there has disappeared
The volcano ofKilauca has been unusually
T active OF late. 4 steamer arriving AZ Hi,
on Wednesday, May ., reports that as sh
passed down the coast on the following
nigh, tho light Of the crater was unusual,
. brilliant. On Friday q; G:ij p. IN. soSera
, pretty severe earthquake shocks were felt
, followed few minutes later by jet O
S lava thrown up from the door Of the crate
near the east bank through crack whicl
had evidently been made by the earth
/ quake. The lava continued 20 spout a
: this place, gradually ascending q steel
bluTto Is summit, then moving along d
/ isthmus and connecting the large crate
s with the smaller one Of kilsucaki, dow
into :he pit Of which the lava ran. Thi
continued for six hours, the lava beini
, thrown up in humorous jets along the lin
] at different heights, at times reachjng 10
feet Frequently there would be at lea'
= fifty Of these Jets Rt once, making a mag
] nifcent display. The locality Of thi
eruption and It's general characteristics AZ
pear to be idontically the same as those q
1892, 1910 and 1868. simultaneously wit
= the appearance Of these fires those Of ol
, South Lake were suddenly cItinguishcJ
e and for two days following no fires wcr
] seen on kilous.