The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-05-30
KILAUEA
TO BREAK OUT
SMOKE POURING FORTH IN
DENSE VOLUMES
YESTERDAY. a
kauai BRINGS VERY STARTLING
NEWS.
Learned Nothing Of Outbreak of Mo-
kuaweoweo but Saw red Reflection on
Nights of Reportea Eroption.

kuaweoweo but Saw red Reflection on
Nights of Reportea Erdption.
SSa.
The steamer Kauai, Captain Bruhn.
arrived this morning from Punaluu and
Kailua with the news that Kilauea had
begun to emit smoke at a furious rate
and that the prospects for some vol
canic action from that crater were
threatening.
The column of smoke was noticed
last Friday by Purser Clark and the
various people aboard the vessel 1t
increased in volume until on Tuesday,
it was pouring out in such quantity
as to be plainly visible from the sur
rounding seacoast. In fact, the volume
of smoke increased steadily and yester-
day morning when the vessel sailed
from Hawaii the smoke was denser
than 1t had been at any other time. Tne
smoke was very black in color and was
palmer to be seen early in the morning
than at any other time of the day, as
the winds disperse the smoke clouds
later in the day.
Advices from the Volcano house re-
ceived at Kau We're to the effect that
the fire, which had been discovered at
Kilauea last week, had disappeared but
that the lava had begun to boil No
adVices were received concerning the
increasing volume Of smoke but this
condition was too apparent to require
corrobOration.
So far as the outbreak of Mokuaweo-
weo reported yesterday from HoOkena
by Captain Townsend of the gasoline
schooner Eclipse is concerned, neither
Captain Bruhn nor Purser Clark of the
Kauai heard of any such volcanic ac-
ton. The clouds were so dense about
Punaluu and Hookena however that the
mountain could not be seen.
The statements of Captain Bruhn
tend however, to corroborate the story
of some manner of outbreak, for on
last Friday and Saturday nights, the
same nights mentioned by Captain
Townsend, Captain Bruhn saw the skies
red with the reflection of some light.
He saw the reflection or whatever 1t
was. as late as IL o'clock. The red glow
| seemed to Captain Bruhn, to extend all
around the compass. This condition, lu-
dicates that. It. was perhaps the after
glow which has been in the heavens for
some days past. On the other, hand,
the after glow is not as a rule, Observ-
able so late, generally disappearing
about p. m. This reflection was more
noticeable on Friday and Saturday
nights.
No news of the reported outbreak of
MokuaweOweo was learned from any of
the natives at any of the ports where
the Kauai touched.
It is possible that the volcano. might
simply have flared up during the two
nights and then subsided temporarily.
The fact that the light was not seen
from the Volcano House is easily eX-
planned by the fact that MokuaweOweois
! over $4,000 feet in height while Kilauea
and the Volcano House are about $500
feet and. are about twenty miles from
the other Volcano. The clouds have
been very heavy and thick about Ha-
wall for some weeks past and 1t is very
probable that they obscured the view
! of Manager WaldTon and others and
! prevented them from seeing the refiec-
tion of the reported eruption of Mokua-
weoNeo on Friday and Saturday nights.
Diamond Head Charlie the local look
out saw the light on last Friday night.
! I 1 seemed to him to be in an east by
| south eaSterlY direction. The sky was
very red. He does not think that 1t
! was the after glow at all, but was in
! all probability the reflection from a
| volcano He says he has not seen the
| sky so red for a long time. He nU-
ticed the reelection as late as 2 a. m. of
| Saturday. The clouds finally shut 1t
| off from view
1t was thought that when the Kauai
arrived today she might bring news,
either of a confrmatory character or
| else disprOving the report of the erup-
| ton of MOkuaweoweo but unfortunate
| ly the matter still remains unsettled
with sey eral features added as corru-
| boration. Not until the Kinau arrives
| tomorrow can the matter be settled. If
the volcano did spring into fiery activity
on the two nights of last week, the peo-
| pie of HilO would certainly have heard
of II by this time and the news will
probably be sent on the steamer.
The unusually hazy condition of Ha-
wall, caused by the numerous clouds
and heavy mists have prevented the
people on the western coast from learn
| ing positively about the reported out
break and there Is, as a result nothing
surprising in the fact that so little de-
finite news has been brought by the
vessels which have arrived from that
| part of Hawaii.