The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-28

! aNETE2TE YOU NOLl4 ike 10 near W lLl
some Of the people have to say of the
1865 outbreak who were living in Kat
at the time it occurred.
FRANK GERARD'S STORY.
N"I was living in WaiohiRu at tbs
time. I would not like To live my Ifs
over again and go through another
such experience as that. Many people
left WaiOhiuu after the eruption. L left
myself. \ week or 50 before the out
break there were constant earthquakes
The stone walls were always falling
and we would put them up again &c
keep the stock from straying. The peO-
pie spent most of their time on the
hills back of the town. Then there was
a great shake with a landslide back OF
the town, when all of the walls and
| the big stone church came down fiat.
The whole town then took to the hills
and stayed there. l was up there five
days with my family. The outbreak
| occurred one evening a few days after
the great shake. We knew that the
lava had broken out, for suddenly it
was as light as day. There We're no
more earthquakes after this
STORY OF REV. j. KAUHANE.
Il was living near Kapapala at the
time, not far from where the mud flow
came down. We had been having con-
slant and heavy earthquakes for more
than a week, when one day there was
a great shake. L was working out in
the yard at the time and was thrown
to the ground Hearing my wife call
ing to me from the house. 1 started to-
wards her, but was thrown down once
more. Again 1 heard her calling for
help; ] tried to crawl towards the
house this time, but was thrown vio-
lently over. 1 lay there then until the
earthquake was over"
CAPT. BROWNS MARROW ESCAPE.
Mr.. 1. S. Swain. now deputy sheriff
of North Hilo, says: 4 was staying
with Capt. John Brown at Kahuku
when the 1868 outbreak occurred. l
was engaged in the pull business. The
house had been knocked to pieces by
the great shake, so we rugged up
light shelter in the yard. Suddenly,
one evening, a day or so after the
great earthquake, it was IS light as
day. We knew that the lava had
broken through the mountain at last,
from US. for we could hear the lava
pouring out.
Captain Brown started off immedi-
ately with his family. 1 stopped to
pick up a few things. 1 saw that they
were going towards Kona and started
when suddenly the thought came that
there was no water in that way, and 1 |!
shouted:
The other way
'"They turned without q word. We
had gone but a short distance when
Mrs. Brown, who was a stout woman, :
sat down, saying:
cannot go any farther. Leave me ;
and save yourselves.
I'VE could now plainly hear the lava
coming toward us.
If you stay, 1 stay with you said !
he ,Nagy n II, -
up and started on again. I took hold
IF one side and the Captain the other,
and so we hurried her along. We had
Just reached some high ground when
The lava came down past us with 4
'ush like a freshet of water. Had we
gone the other way we would surely
lave been lost"
THE MUD FLOW a LANDSLIP.
As I have already said this mud
low was a water-SOaked pail, which
vas hurled down by the great 1863
1t ran a distance of three
Il four miles in few minutes. Thirty ,
Ives were lost in it. These were pulu-
'ickers who were w on this hillside
licking pulu, as we suppose; or it may
&c that they We're up there for safety. I
here is now a good spring of water =
t the base of the pail. This spring 4:
vas not there before. At present the
mud flow is planted with Pahala plan
alton sugar cane. Some of the finest
ane of the plantation is that grown
II the flow. The flow is but a few
eet thick.
HE GREATEST FLOW ON EARTH
With the exception OF some of the
Their flows of Hawaii, there is no lava
tream on earth that can compare with
he 1855 flow. The end of this flow is
tx miles wide up to a distance of
from
verage width of four miles; in places
is go feet thick. This flow began as
a, but suddenly changed to the purest
I pahoehoe, flowing the balance of the
ay-twenty miles-as such. Where
9th can be seen, the pahoehoe seems
, run right over the aa, as though the
a had thus suddenly turned to pahoe-
oe; but the change probably took J
lace from the source, the lava making
S way through the underground tun-
Il 10 this place.
The 1855 flow reached a point eight
tiles from the town of Hilo. When \
ithout any apparent reason. it ceased 4
, advance, and began spreading and
ilinS-Which il continued to do for 5
lirteen months. Had the flow gone on z
stead of banking il is probable that
would have flowed into the bay over h
he main part Of the town OF Eflo The
DIV was heading directly for the strip :
land between the Wailuku river and
h. Halai hills. There is q chance. Of
}urse, that it might have turned off
Ito the Waikiki. and perhaps ex- 4
busted itself in filling that up. Hio
as much alarmed, and everyone was
ady to leave at moments notice.
THE 1853 FLOW.
This flow broke out on the northwest
n slope of Nauna Loa, 10000 feet
Dove the sea. Next 10 the 1855 flow
is the greatest of Hawaiian lava
reams. 1t reached the sea at XII
DO in seven days, flowing around the
1rth and eastern slopes of HuaIalai. Z
filled all but a small portion of the h
z kiholo fish pond. built by Kameha-
cha, and destroyed the huts of ma
YES near the pond. This flow CON
nued TO run for seven months, being ct
typical pahoehoe stream.
No doubt some Of you have ridden !
ON Kawaihae to Kiholo: if so. the ci
ST lava you crossed ('black Laval I -
st before reaching the little village
kiholO. is the 1859 flow II is about