The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-10-20

fraudpa's barn, all ready for hay
On this Joyous, merry, midsummer ssdayi "a,
sacee, fee-haw!" NOV. youngsters, there,
uod ilardl keep steady! SO, have careI % .
snd the little folks scream and cali at win,
As the "load of hay" moves down the hill,
mi. without tumbles bruisa or fall, ~
diem hay-caft, chiidrensand all ssF
Stand safe on the old barns sunshipy floor,
and the ssbsautifid, splendid fun, is DER.
MARY ID. Brine, in N. Y. Independent.
MAUNA LUA.
me Great Hawaiian Volcano = Lava
Floods still Pouring Out-Beleaguer-
INK Fires Around the Doomed Town OF
HiIo-seenes Fit for Dere's Pencil and
Dsates Inferno zierilous sishf=seeins.
A correspondent of the San Francisco
Bulletin, who has recently visited the
active volcano in Hawaii, gives the fol-
lowing vivid description of the scenes
daily witnessed there:
The great eruption of Mauna Loa, or
the Lofty Mountain has been going
on for eight months. Visitors are flock
ING to the Hawaiian group from all
parts of the world to see this gigantic
display Of the hidden forces of nature.
From the summit crater of Mokuaweo-
wso the mighty:volcanosis ipeufings put
amolten food. oyer, fifty miles long,
and in many places four miles wide.
This stream of lava threatens to destroy
Hilo, fill up the. harbor and perhaps
make bold promontory jutting far out
into the ocean, over the ssspet where
pleasure boats, and ships now sail. In
1859 the eruption flowed for thirteen
months, and the present outbreak may
last as long. The head of the stream
Is now within two miles of Hilo, is eyer
four miles wide, and in places is banked
up to the height of one hundred feet.
Il this layawall bursts, as it is likely to
do at any moment, and without warn
ing, the lovely town and beautiful har-
Dor will be overwhelmed in swift de-
struction, aswere the silent cities which
Iedeeply buried beneath the wrath OF
Vesuyius.
For the past three weeks Hilo and its
environments have been swarming with
fourists gathered to witness the wide
spread devastation wrought by the lava
TOW from Mauna Loa Mountain during
the past eight months, it being just that
long to-day since the. eruption of. this
year was discovered. Mauna Ioa is
situated on Hawaii, the largest island
OF the group, and is virtually the high
est Volcano In the world. 1t rises from
the oceans shore q vast snow-capped
dome, 14,000 feet in height. Cotopaxi
Volcano, in Ecuador, has a summit 49,
wg feet hugh from the sea level hut
from its base upon the great tabIc-lahd
upon which it stands it is only about
1000 feet high, conseaaently II Is much
less imposing in aspect than is Mauna
Loa, whose summit crater has been long
extinct; the recent outbreaks always
occurring upon the weakest parts of
the mountains sides, and at elevations
ranging from 5, 900 to IL. 900 feet.
Ihe fow is but a short distance to
me southwestof Hilo, and is approach
ing 1t with alarming velocity, the three
streams into which the flow has been
divided, having united with an acceler-
ated speed resulting from the union
Last week a squirt Of half mile was
made, and during the week an advance
q over q mile has been effected. That
Inc town and harbor are doomed ap-
pears to be d foregone conclusion. Tie
melancholy duty of recording their de-
sluctlon is at hand, and may be ex-
peeied any, day; yet, SO accustomed to
M ale situation have many become,
1nrough familiarity with the awful phe-
nomenon, that they have ceased to re-
sard the danger of their position in its
sluIy appalling light, and they act and
Fss about it very much as Noah's
aelgnhors did previous to another mem-
s1a: Slaole disaster. They propose estab-
nsalne a telephone line to facilitate
Wmmanication with the plantations
ala other towns upon the island.
anfongs visit the scene of the flow
ualiy. and many persons run over the
nol.en mass the moment the slightest
~ s.ass forms upon it and while it is yet
1os enough to burn wood or leather.
.aueed, it takes days to cool, there be-
~ always liquid fire flowing beneath.
: .sly 4 party went up in the evening
saS 0SpCCt tkicu DcfUQ 1uoSG
awe .saMe'lnspiring. They intended to re-
,tsa MN oy moonlight, and walked up the
~" ABOUT three-quarters of a mile
~ Undertaking which narrowly es-
sapeu proving most disastrous. For
~, sstls the lives of all rested upon most
pecarious tenure. "
i. At frst the ladies could not be in
sas. uacea 70 set foot upon the lava, fearing
.a' us hot, thin crust would break un-
fs.. -. ana precipitate them into the fiery
,aaace IA I they could view through cracks
tsaaa a noles IN what they were invited to
H. asao upon. Having started out over
ss;. I eooler portions; however, they
sasneo sasa' confidence, till at length they
ssa's %a.e 30 carried daway with the Inspiring
eas as''ement incident to their marvel.
mn,s II surroundings, that they had lost
persn ssr OF their timidity,s and could be
n;,han nusan on. cataract of living flame.
nps;s Ssssr and thither the party few, rapid
ts.ss .sos,on being necessary to prevent The
ssas sa ana immediate destruction of their
'ases Mand and clothing.
fshs shsesnwhile the sun had set. The twi-
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