The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-06-10
EVENTS IN JAPAN.
Late News Received by the City of
Picking To-day

Telegr phic news received in Toxic
yesterday from near the scene OF Fridays
eruption on Azuma.yama states that on
Saturday morning there were five
cracks visible on the mountain, from
which flames were issuing and dense
smoke obscured the sky for miles
around. Since A. NJ. the water OF
the river Sugawa had been turbid.
Fortunately, the season for the hot
spr ings had not commenced and there
were, therefore, no tourists staying in
the neighborhood
A later telegram states that another
eruption h d taken place on the noun
tain and that another CraC% had been
| formed from which smoke and flames
we're issuing.
An official telegram reports that the
scene of the first eruption was the scene
of a similar catastrophe about 50 years
ago. An enormous landslip 800 by 200
ken in extent resulted, but accurate de
tails of the damage cannot yet be ascer
tanned on account f the dense and
poisonous fumes emitted. One of the
bath houses was seen buried up to it:
caves, and hut attached to the place
had been shifted a distance of about
80 ken. Nothing is yet known of the
fate of the people residing on the spot
Unfortunate Gifu has been expert
encing continual shocks of earthquake
Although the accounts published ii
the various native papers coincide lr
the main features they nearly all diffe
in some particulars, and we thtref re
give the Nibbon'S version in addition
to the above, published in our morn
, ing's issue The place where thu
eruption took place being somewha
remote, s or ri from Fukushima will
> no means OF rapid communication be
), tween it and the ncighboring villages
t it is with difficulty that particulars o
7 the eruption are filtering their wa,
tediously to the Capital, and man,
{ inaccuracies will probably be discovered
u later on.
y According to the NibtoN's specia
:. correspondent no damage has bee
! done to any buildings and no live
y have been lost, but the jury to crop
r and land is expected t. be very grea
IS and the river Abukuma upon whic
/. many farmers depend, has become S
4 limpregnated with the mineral emissio
from the moHntain and Choked wit
" ashes that it is feared it will seriousI
Re damage the crops. AT distance c
y two ri from the foot of the volcano
If two hot-spring bath houses are situated
and these acc riding to the NiPbO
were unirjurt d, though the above re
u port states the contrary The write
II describes the scene on Friday as az
re palling, vast canopy of black sulphur
70 Gus clouds obscuring the sky, and lou
. rumbling with slight vibration continu
o ing almc st necessarily. Writing o
IcituibaJ CNChHiS lC oa)ol 'hS ouD'Nl
ranean noises had ceased, but tn
crater was still belching forth fame
with great activity, showers of ashe
falling for miles round, and blockin
L the streams
u The FnkuShima Shimbm describe
J the ground as honeycombed with tn
{ dents of falling stones, which wit
u numberless sparks were thrown l
: hundreds of feet at the second eruptio
l. with tremendous noise
The eruption has taken place a
Azumafuj,, one of the three peak
known respectively as the east, ives
- and central peaks. The crater of thi
. peak is some 400 or 500 yards in Gil
n cumference and the whole region
o highly volcanic, being link in tn
n same volcanic chain as Bandai san, an
/ sulphur springs and miniature geyser
u abound in its vicinity. Gfu has e,
=; perienced series Of slight shocks t
q the number of eighteen or twenty thi
y month.-9aPdn Gazette.