The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-01-22

Ask twelve men of the size of the moon as it APP
pears will as many answers and eaeh one @
e,t from the other conditions prevail at the lava
no" stood . the road where the third flow has could
see to the appeared be series OF Mis-
foot hills Of Mauna Loa evidence of activity
forces Far to the left at altitude of say
six or seven thousand maybe there was lud name
with steam letting hole which seemed from ITS ocatoh
w On hoobac, of the foot hill the right possibly
af mile there was glow single burning coal and urtner
along the right intervals OF halt to OF
were more lights At point the of the hill was lost TO sgh
but that of another carried along further to the right
southwest Here was big How something mighty s I1
ing and aweinspng in its effect That flow was apparently
half mile going northery direction until hidden by inc
ohias on hill nearer to U.S. ,, f
Separated the downward ow or rather on
view the lava evidently made to the south again and we
sHa s See b south Of the point where this observed
was red ball of fire. hundred yards VIDE perhaps, @
of fire Back Of it, apparently guh steam from what
supposed the first flow There rev was no n h @
nothing but evidence of its having been Still iuher PACK was
another hill bearing general characteristics he Spots at
intervals c.. d
flow is obscued comes continuation of Down across the
country travelled carrying with the young fore Oh on. M
Young sapngs reached the government road
away the telephone poles and everything before It, Mr. Ag
and his wife were at the flow crossed and he the
manager telephone company in that district ne was oil "
From where we stood impossible to see whether the
end of the the All previous statements were upon
the authority who guessed they were correct IN saying
the lava pouring into it. This great black mass was con-
stany moving lava in its center running IKE water IN M
race and as the side that was unsafe TO DC
nearer than fifty feet The black sides would sud
denly alive and great bouders would shoos out
edge and fall down to the ground giung ne trees anu
brush they fell c,:..,. ,.n.,rs,
a. the ap having come from He lonesome
locking chap haole clothes with soldiers
for he had come the lava and the
sharp had the soes He made the Statement @
coming out ground "a the same water inns statemh
plac
half mile they against How that was real ;d
W ne hill turned into IA and again reelt ir
places water When the boys were returning s
bne the road out of breath with that was real
immediate CONSERVATION and IN rev mu d g thew
of the Gaspars taken down. the horses htched ana on
went for the tall timber Japanese Hawaians and other Portu
of the Gaspa party eated n ao I back that
feared the approaching would cross the road
hem in the party the flows either OF which was Se
70 widen so as to catch like rats in a trap
NV driver and determined though the weather was growing
o every Blanket and took seat phaeon while the boy
kept guard Presently noticed the space between EN- e
along fiji ND until there continuous stretch of fire along th
line Of the hill hill back of it, and on the rgh as Wen
mas another or it might continuation, OF this How there was
NO av of determining big flow mentioned in the begnne
description also got buster and sn h u
were now single of boiling lava On occasions there
boulders hurled air and explosion followed men ,
the annoying gusts of wind and sand that cut h'o ee
needles ..,-;,a ,,ona directly to-
d hs not where we were standing We watched Tor two
hours watched the lava hit the trees on . t
Of the hill in front the light shooting into the heavens a
glare enveloped everything From the eea
] 70 MS explosions taking place and bouders were
sftv to hundred the air The light Would as
very much as lightning electrical storm Whenever uet
h FIRE the color of light changed and the derence we
as marked as inandescent ana an are M MI
we felt that of getting away or ge.s d look
the horses to the carriage and started slowly along e Iii
inc back at intervals watch the lava coursns WV d h
D1rng the drive of the timber winch suiISu It IVA
1;sht was strong enough for to proceed whou lamps pn,
like an early morning at daybrea and the sun The sun wa
w and shining through smoke which gave it the merry
Up sst os the day through the night saw plainly SPARK
roi ~ ,u.k. or asleep there diminuton OF TINS
OF lire and awake VI a'~f 49, T. T. STACKER.