The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-19
KILAUEA'S LAVA FLOW.
The Eruption is q splendid sight,

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 Hilo, August 29.-The Tribune says:
 The volcano at Ki1auea is in the most violent state of eruption that has oc- cured since 1892.
 1 An earthquake shook Hlo last Mon day night and within few minutes thereafter a telephone message from Manager Waldron at the Volcano
 House, thirty miles away, stated that the pit of HalemaUmau was refiecting a light plainly visible on the clouds. The message also stated that MT. Waldron
 would go at once to the crater's edge, three miles away and see what had happened.
 Tuesday morning Mir. Waldron was able to report that he had looked into the pit and seen a boiling, tempest tossed lake of molten lava four hundred feet in diameter and probably eight to ten hundred feet below the rim of the great cauldron.
 The face of the lake of liquid fire would alternately be black and white like the gushing fluid that leaps from the furnaces of steel plant. The oxi- dization and cooling of the fiery fluid would blacken the surface with pail that would clothe the vast inverted ca thedral in darkest gloom. A quiver, caused by further subterranean uphea- vals would break this oxide ice into a fretwork of a thousand incandescent cracks, lighting up the smoke-charged pit with fierce glare.
 Here and there over the surface of the lake, columns of white hot lava would shoot upwards like the harmless foun- tains in the public gardens. The great forbidding walls of the House of Ev- erlasting Fire would simmer awhile in amazement with this unaccustomed light. and as the geysers of fire would die away, and the surface again turn black, the whole pit once more would be hidden in darkness and smoke.
 All day Tuesday the same conditiins prevailed Tuesday night the light from the red hot furnace was reflected on the clouds. The same conditions held through Wednesday. and Thurs day MT. Waldron reported the volcano as simply magnificent" Wednesday night people living near Hilo could see the vivid reflection on the clouds.
 The present upheaval of lava seems to be from the very bottom of the crater and not from a wound in the side as ap- peared in June. The liquid lava is trou- bled and convulsed as from powerful activity of forces below.
 Large crowds of Hilo people will go up Sunday.
 Following is the Herald's story: Madam Peiee is doing herself proud in Halemaumau and unless all signs fail the Volcano House will be the center of activity of the Hlo and tourist folk for weeks to come. On Monday night Manager Waldron of the Volcano House noticed bright glare in the vii cinity of the crater and as the time passed his desire to investigate grew in like ratio with the brilliancy of the illu- imitation from natures furnace.
 At half-past nine Mr. Waldron and one of the guests of the hotel took the trail to the crater, arriving there safely an hour later, They found the crater rather fuli of steam, but at intervals they could plainly see the lake formed at the bottom. MT. Waldron estimated the distance across the molten lava at four hundred feet and from the view point about a thousand feet.
 Two hours after reaching the crater the steam disappeared entirely and the scene was one of indescriba ble gran deur. The lava was boiling from the bottom, not running down the side as it did in June last. Several of the guests now at the Volcano House say the pres ent lake strongly resembles that which made it's appearance in Halemaumau in 1892. At times the surface of the lava darkens, then suddenly it will break out in brilliant red, the dark leaden color disappearing. There are indications of several blow holes and these may develop fountains at any time.
 The present lake is on the Kau side of Halemaumau and fine view may be had of it by persons standing on the edge of the crater. The glow is visible from the veranda of the Volcano House, and on Tuesday night, when the guests went down into the crater, there were signs that the lava is rising perceptibly. Just how long it will consume in reach ing the main crater is difficult to calcu- late It may not come that high during the present outbreak, but as it has