Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-12-22
MADAME PHFS
VISIT To KAU
Continued from Page 81

grand SIGHT. Our lOcal chapCl, parity
destroyed by the earthquake. could
not be reached by this fire. for It was
surrounded by a great stone wall; a.
though this had been almost lcyClcd
to the ground It was nevertheless a
barrier To the flames.
Narrow Escaocs
Now | will relate to my readers
some remarkable escapes similar to
the one related about the mud.how at
Moaula There was quite an old ma.
tive living some eight or ten miles
from the mouth of the crater. When
he saw that the flow was making =
hec.line for his domicilc. he hastily
took what he considered the most pre-
cious of his houschold--hi better half
This wifel, who was very feeble and
stonC.blind in the bargain. and car
ried her to place of safety but
alas the flow was too fast for him:
he was cut short by the flow: lie
could not proceed. He hurried back
in the opposite direction And alas,
poor man, here, too, he found another
molten. red.hot stream cutting him
and his precious charge out of all
chances of escape. Poor man. what
was he to do now? Weary of limb
and sick at heart. he returned to his
miserable shack and there resigned
to what was coming, he patiently
awaited his fate. viz: to be crematcd
alive. But Almighty God had pity on
him and spared him and his charge
Just n few yards above his hut the
flow divided and encirclcd his shack
and united again several feet below
II. Thus a circle of about fifty yards
in diameter formed an oasis 10 pro
tcct this worthy old couple Minor
streams from the main flow actually
onCroaChcd little on this oasis. and
the couple was rather uncomlortably
warm for the time being. but their hut
and its inmates passed this trying or
zeal unscathCd.
Now before winding M my already
too long narrative. may be allowed
I" venture an opinion and try to ex
lain that mysterious noise. that sub
icrrancous rush accompanied by the
tremor that almost caused an old ma
tive to collapse.
II had since learned that that sub
tCrrancan noise of thirty minutes du
ration took place simultaneously with
the fast sinking molten lava In the
crater. II sunk completely out of
sight In the bottom OF the crater. Then
followed that mad subterrancan rush
or underground flow. There was no
more fire, no more smoke in Kilauca
the crater. Old Madam pelc Travelled
within the bowels of mother earth to
kahuku, distance of sixty miles, and
there she started the racket, causing
~ eruption and vomiting forth that
quantity Of rcd.hot lava that flowed
down to my old native that carried
or tried TO carry his wife to a place
OF safety. That was the liow that set
III" plains anrc. So we were right
after all, when we said that that noise
sounded like the noise caused by a
last train running through n tunnel.
We were indeed on n tunnel that time.
The fast running train was the i'm.
lnenSe quantity of molten lava rush.
ihg underground from one place To
another. II therefore took Madam
Pcle exactly thirty minutes to rush
her train to Kahuku-sixty miles I'm.
foreground.
King Gave Aid
The terrible news of the Kau dis
aster travelled fast; the little schooner
that carried the Protestant minister
to Honolulu hastened to spread the
news far and wide. Our fright was
at last over, for Madam had now
reached the sea and was ENJOYING her
sea-bath; she has apparently cooled
en- and does not trouble MS any more
or course, we feel shocks yet every
now and then. Windows rattle and
high lamps occasionally stagger. bu,
they don't mean anything serious. And
even II they did where will you go 10
TO run away from Almighty God? II
might he case of 'out of the frying
pan, into the fire. We therefore try
to make the best of II.
when His Majesty the King heard
OF our troubles, he at once chartered
schooner and had II loaded witt
clothes. food, lumber and provisions
Of all kinds. His Lordship, BishoI
Maigrct, Immediately took passage fol
kau, to study up our situation and nd
minister relief as far as he was able
He told me to pull down all that re
NAMED of my Kamaoa chapel
therefore had three chapcls and on,
priests house to rebuild. The KIM
had sent his Minister TO distribute tn,
relief funds, and incidentally | ma,
mention that | was chosen membe
of the relief committee. This commit
tee was only discharged after severa
months-or until the natives had an
other crop coming.
In winding up, return SINGER,