Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-09-21
Jenson's Travels.
LKTTHR NO. XIV.

does break out, perhaps once in FIVE
years, Il remains In action usually only a
short time. When there are lava
streams from this mountain, they burst
out from the sides, and are not an over
flow from the summit crater, and the
streams How In whatsoever direct on
the incline Is sufficient TO attract It.
Several destructive efup'iors e this
mountain have become facts Of history.
Ga the nth OF August 1855, stream Ct
lava burst out OF The Northeastern side
Of the mOuntai1 at an elevation OF 12.o-o
feet, and ran directly toward Hilo. In
some places IL was over two miles wide.
After having flowed for fifteen months II
reached point within eight niles Of
llilo, November 271d 1896 causing
great alarm to thu inhabitants Of that
town; but there the flow ceased and Hilo
was saved. Again on January 25rd 1859
an eruption took place from assure on
the noithern side cf the mountain, about
10 600 feet above the sea. the lava
stream flowed 10 the northwest, passing
around the eastern and northern SIDES
OF Mount Hualalai. and reached the sea
at Keawaili, North kona, In eight days,
filing up great hsh pond constructed
by Kamehameha | at kiholo. The lava
continued to flow until August, period
OF seven months. Ga March 77th 1868,
an eruption began in the summit crater
OF MaunA Lol, attended by long series
OF earthquake shocks. At length, on
the and Ot April. terrible earthquake
took place, which shook down every
stone wall and nearly every house In the
district OF Kau, and did more OF less
damage in every part OF the island Of
Hawai-. At kapapala. 10 eastern Kau,
IL caused destructive landslide, com
monty known as the mud How.' An
enormous mass OF marshy clay was de-
iached from the bluff at the head OF the
valley and In few minutes swept down
Tor a distance OF three miles In a stream
about half mile wide and thirty feet
deep In the middle. Il moved so swiftly
that 1t overlook and buried thirty.one
human beings and over five hundred
horses, cattle and goats. Immediately
alter this earthquake, tremendous
wave, forty or fifty feet high, roll.d in
upon the coast OF Kau, sweeping away
all the villages from Kaalualu to l;eau.
hou, aud destroying some cocoanut
groves. Over eighty pe,scns persisted
In few minutes, and the survivors were
AtAA ANnAlAhAN hiAh ~ INT same
time the crater OF Kilauea emptied itself
OF its lava through underground assures
toward the sout iwest The central part
OF the floor Of the crater fell in, forming
pit 5000 feet long and 500 feet deep
with sloping sides. On tie 9Th OF April,
1903, the lava from the central crater OF
Mauna Loa burst out on the southwest
slope OF the mountain. In the land Of
kahuka, at a point 5000 feet above the
sea. The lava spouted up In great
fountains. several hundred feet high,
and flowed to the sea, distance of ten
miles In two hours. This eruption con-
ilnued only five days. It destroyed
several houses and several hundred
head OF cattle and overlooked 1000
acres Of good land. Three men we're
imprisoned for several days on a hill
surrounded by lava streams. Ga May
10th, 1877, great earthquake wave was
experienced on all the Hawaiian Islands,
which washed away the village OF