Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-05-18
the last living hope of those who bore them.

inc last HNIng nope OF tnOse VIM oote them
The cloud which had scattered deep murkness
Ger the day settled into solid and impeuetra-
HE mass It resembled less the thckest gloom oil
sht In open air than the close and blind darkness Oh
some narrow room But in proportion as the blackness
gathered did ghtnings around Nesuvus increase IN
thei. vivid and scorchng glare Nor was their horrible
beauty confined to hues of fire; rainbow ever
varying and prodigal dyes Now brightly bue
the depth Of southern sky-now oil viVu
snakeke dartng restessy to and ro as tha
folds of scrpent-now of lurid and inoler
ao crimson gushing forth through the columns Of smoke
." and wide and lighting the whole city from arch to
archthen suddenly dying into scky paleness Ike the
ghost of their own life!
In the pauses of showers you heard the rumhing
the beneath and the groaning waves Of the tor
jtrret sea- or still and audible but to the watch OF
Ircpgest fear the grinding and kissing of the
cal ing gases through the chass of the dHant mountain
Sometimes the cloud appeared to break from its solid mass
ia7 by the lightning TO assume quaint and vast mmcres
human or of monster shapes strdng the goom
upon the other and vanishing swiftly into the
abyss of shade that to the eyes and fancies
the arghted unsubstanta vapors were
the bodily forms OF gigantic oesthe agents OF terror
and of death.
The ashes in places already knee deep; and
the boiling showers which from the seaming breath
Sf forced their into the houses bearing
them strong and suhocatng In some places
icmense fragments rock hurled upon the house roofs
bore along confused ruin which
ye more and more every hour INSTRUCTED the
the day advanced the motion Of the earth was
sensbly fethe footing seemed to slide and
nor could chariot litter be kept steady the
rost level ground.
Sometimes huger striking against each other
they fell broke into countless fragments. emitting
sparks of fire. which caught whatever combustibo
within their reach along the plains beyond the city
the darkness terribly relieved for several houses
AID vineyards had been set flames and at various
Intervals the sulleny and ercey against the
solid gloom To add to this partial relief of the darkness
The citizens had here and there in the public places
the porcos OF temples and the entrances to the
FORUM endeavored TO OF torches but these
y continued long, the showers and the winds exngushed
and the sudden darkness into which their sudden birth
converted had something in 1t douby terrible ana
do"ty mpressing the Importance of human hopes the
lcfson OF despair.
Bright and gigantic through the which closed
around like the walls of hell the mountain shonea pile
OF fire. Its summit seemed riven in two; rather above
its surface there seemed rise monster shapes each
confronting each, demons conending for world These
we've of deep boodred hue of fire. which lighted up
the whole atmosphere far and wide but below the neither
part OF the mountain still dark and shrouded in
tire places, adown which flowed serpentne and irrogp
si rivers of the molten Darky through pro
found gloom Of their banks they flowed slowly
ward the devoted city Over the broadcast
spring dragged and supendous arch from which iron
10 jaws OF hell gushed the the Phege
thon And through the stilled air heard the rafting
of the fragments OF rock hurng upon another they
were borne down the fiery for in
slant the spot where they fell and sufused next
the Furnished hues of the food along which they
lnstinctively he turned the mountain, and behold
one the gigantic cress into which the summit hat
been divided rocked and wavered fro; and then
vita sound mightiness which no language can de
scribe it fell from its burning base and rushed ava