New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-01

in the act Of fleeing FOR safety. some cmhrac-
inc their wives ard children. This was death
llo,y IN Kooua's cause. j. was taken as sign
that thc mighty Pcic was on kam"ham'h'f
side And the next year Keoun was slam. ana
kaucb .meha became lord of Hawai- ana founded
che dynasty which has ended with the 'al OF
I.niuokalani In 1901 there was gr'a' crup
,on of IIualas at the other side oi Mhuh'
Lea which destroyed many villages ana hIi"'
nm a lake Countless PIGS were sacrihc'" ~
Pcle bnt in vain. Al last kom"hamcha cut ",
half Of his own hair. Which mas con,''''''
soorod and throw it into the lava food ana
then the eruption ceased
,rain in Is 10 Kilauea, which had been quiet Tor
sfty wears. burst forth with awful Jury.
stream Of molten lava narrowed underground from
the crater twelve miles to the coast az Naha""''
uherc il flowed into thu sea. For three weeks
:, ,oood bursting from its burrow 10 the surface
Of the ground at various points ana dcs'royih
sovorol villages though not one lille was Ios''
Tn. Iicbt from tic crater 50 intense that ~ .
dis,apco nj forty miles one could by its aid' rcah
the finest print al midnight.
Most Of the great eruptions, however, nav" come
from Neknaweowco the huge crater at IN" suh'nii'
NJ Mama Loa II is usually entirely quiet cNccP'
AZ tbc times Of actud, eruption, while hilhu"' j.
never still for more than an hour ABOUT ono"
in nine years there Is great outbnrs' from M"N III
.,.a....o Ono of the most famous Of all wa that
y, 1877 The lava flow broke. on August H.
from the northeastern side OF the mountaih' AZ
ho,oh, of twelve thousand feet, and continued
;,1 ,,,ohated energy until November 81 OF the
foIowinr year. The stream OF molten lava WIS
fully two miles wide, and II spread over an area
NJ three hundred square miles, dcpositlhS heIe""'
:, - rocI,oncd thirty-cight billion cubic feet OF
lava. Ravincs and valleys were hlicd up an"
,,a, nrimeval forests annihilnted. The stream
NJ destruction made liz way strai@h' 'o"a'" 'i'o'
and reached a point within few miles Of that
town. A great panic arose among 'n' p'"P.''
Tro pev DIR. Titus Coan who was tnch NJ the
Le,d of thc Christian mission there held special
service Of prayer for the preservation Of the town.
,nd ,b. next day the joyful news went abroad
,I,,. tbc flow of lava had indeed stopped Many
=, ,be natives were so impressed by this incident,
or coincidence that they Immediately ahlured
,boir benthen worship and accepted Christianity.
4 curious scqucl to,this story, however, is also
., ho told On November ,. 1880 there was
orotber tremendous eruption. and again the lava
Gowed straight toward IIilo. For months II made
lis way unchecked, aud cam" to within hiic oi
the town. The inhabitants proplr"i 10 il,%
nrestrss went out 10 meet IT, with the incarfa'l9 -
and rites of the old religion, and threw innunrfanle
MICS into the advancing torrent. " n'i,upolii y, y,
her great JOY and the ama~ment OF the whoie
nonuIace. on August 20, 1881, the flow stopped
and the town was saved
THE OUTBREAK OF MAUNA Loi
Another great eruption occurred on March ~
,ecs accompanied BIZ series Of earthquake
.hoc,,s that wrecked half the Villages on the whole
island Then a vast quantity Of mud was dis
charged from the mountain, pouring for three
miles down the slope in a stream thirty feet deep
and half a mile wide, and bnrying IA great mum
ber Of human beings and animals. Then tidal
wave fifty feet high rolled III from the ocean
and swept away dozen villages. The crater
Of Kiauea poured out its lava thro"si, 1m oto,
ground channels. Finally, on April T. tic cra'cr