The record-union., 1899-07-21
AFFAIRS IN The
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Volcano Of Mokuawaoweo Has
Broken Out Afresh.
Fountains Of Lava Forced Into the Air
Many Hundreds Of Feet.
The Sight at Night and During the
EARLY Morning One of Unusual
Grandeur and Brilliancy.


EARLY Morning One Of Unusual
Grandeur and Bril1iancy.
HILO (Hawaiil, July (via San
Francisco).-After term of rest and
nearly complete idleness extended over
a period of several years, the volcano
of Mokuaweoweo has again broken out,
and gives promise of one of the great
est demonstrations ever furnished by
the volcanoes of the island. The erup-
tion was first noticed at the Volcano
House, where early ON the morning or
July 4th the guests of the hotel We're
awakened by an explosion, and on
making their way to the yerandas wit
messed one of the grandest and most
elaborate displays of pelequxes ever
given. The outbreak occurred on the
side of Mauna Loa at an elevation OF
about 10000 feet, and in about the
same place as where issued the flow of
1SSO-1 Two immense fountains Of
lava were forced in the air to an ele-
walton of many hundred feet and from
these and the constant overflow from
the mountain were rapidly formed the
three lava flows which are now steadily
making their way down the mountain
side toward the sea. These streams of
lava have each taken different direc-
tions and the rapidity of their move
ments is dependent on the distractions
and depressions of the country through
which they pass. The smaller flow is
in the direction of Kilauea, and is now
about twenty miles from the hotel.
What is apparently the second flow in
size is on the Hilo side, and as near
ly as can be estimated will take about
the same course as the Wailuku River.
The third flow which has taken it's
way toward the Kau side. is, to all ap
pearances, the largest flow of lava yet
witnessed on the island and seems to
be making progress in it's path of de-
Struction.
The eruption shows no signs of abate-
ment, and the sight by night and the
early morning hours is one of unusual
grandeur and brilliancy. At the Vol
cano House, which is probably some
twenty-five miles from the outbreak
lights are not required through the
night and the country for many miles
around the mountain is brightly illumi-
mated.
From Hilo the sight has been wit
messed nightly by the Interested crowds
and the Wailuku bridge has been espe
cially desirable position for observa-
ton. From this bridge the illumina-
ton is to be seen directly up the river
and the bright red from the huge
fountains and the overflow as it is seen
through the clouds and smoke make a
picture, at times so weird and always
SO grand that it is not easily to be for,
gotten.
George Patty, who has resided on this
island for the past thirty years and
who has witnessed all the outbreaks
during that time, says this seems to
be the most extensive of all. Starting
as it did so far from the summit the
prospects of long siege is favorable.
People from adjoining islands are ar
irving at the scene in large numbers,
and steamship lines are doing a thriv.
ing business in consequence of the
eruption.
A woman named Edith Almy, said to
be the wife of Henry N Almy, a recent
arrival committed suicide on the morn
ing of the 7th. While there We're GER
tain suspicious circumstances connect
ed with the death. the Coroner's jury
failed to discover any criminal intent
and brought in verdict of suicide.
From the testimony it appears that
Almy and his wife were out carousing
on the night of the 9th. They reached
their home about l a. m. After visiting
several of the rooms. Mrs. Almy came
out of the dining hall and complained
of being i'll. Her symptoms grew rap
idly worse, and Almy finally rang up
physician. The doctor arrived at 2
o'clock to find the woman dead
In looking around the house the doc
tor came across the deadly drug and
the glass from which it had been taken,
These things We're later turned over to
the Coroner. The foregoing details are
all that were furnished the jury.
Almy, who claims to be the husband
of the woman, is manager of the Wash
ington Light Company, with offices in
the Masonic Temple. He stated that he
was married to deceased about a wear
ago in San Francisco. and that he has
since kept her supplied with money,
sending it to an address on Ellis street
Also, that the woman came to the ISL
andS q few weeks ago on a sailing yes
sci.
Almy was deeply under the influence
of liquor most of the early morning.
When the Coroner's jury visited the
premises at 8 o'clock he was lying on
a cot beside the corpse, fast asleep. He
bore every evidence of having spent a
rather tumultuous night.
There are certain circumstances con-
nected with the death which were not
made known to the Coroner's Jury
There is no record of the arrival of
Mrs. Almy at this port. On the 10th Of
June the brig w. G. Irwin arrived from
San Francisco with Mrs. Edith Fuller
among the passengers. Mrs Fuller
seemed disappointed to find that no one
appeared on the dock to meet her. The
woman then applied at hotel for a
room and departed the next day. Pas
sengers on the same vessel say that
Mrs. Fuller is the woman who commit
ted suicide under the name of Mrs.
Almy. The deceased was about %
years of age and is said to have been
related to Mrs. Barry Baldwin of San
Francisco.
NEW YORK STRIKE.