The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-21
CLOSE VIEW OF RIVER OF fire
Stupendous Action of Main Lava
Flow and Minor Molten Streams
Upon Mauna Loa's Slopes.

Ask twelve of of the ap
them will many each dit
ferent from the other The conditions prevail the
the road where the third flow has crossed could
what be of hills probably
hills Mauna evidence of activity
altitude
thousand feet more
with jetng from hole which seemed from its location
hogback of the foot hill little right possibly
mile there glow like single burning coal and further
along the right intervals half mile
lights At this point the of the hill lost sight
of another and carried along further the right
southwest Here big how something mighty in its bear
and aenspirng its effect That flow apparently
half mile wide going norery direction until hidden by the
ohias the hill
Separated fow concealed
evidently the south again
could rushing along wide red At the of the
the point where this flow first observed
ball of hundred yards wide, perhaps and
further along the of this HILL three spots
apparently guch from what
supposed, There fire there,
nothing having Still further
intervals.
Coursing the side the hill from where the first grand
flow is obscured the continuation of it Down the
travelled carrying with the young of oa
brushing them cyclone the
young sapngs When reached the government road carried
away telephone poles everything
wife the road the flow crossed and he the
of the telephone company in that district he was an in
terested spectator.
From where stood 1t impossible to whether the
of All previous
the authority persons guessed they saying
pouring it. This great black
stanty moving in running like in mill
race that
and fifty feet The black sides would sud-
denly boudes would shoot through
ground gnng the and under
they fell.
Shortly before Friday morning Chinese appeared
camp having from the lava He lonesome
locking chap dressed haole clothes with soldiers overoat
hat tied down his ears His feet were not well
distance the lava and the
had found the place where lava
coming of the ground a the water This statement
of investigating and of the
Caspar pav left for the place gone
flow There
being pahoehoe but spread down the side
of the hill turned into and this again seemed TO rne In
places When the boys they
the fire and they cut and
reaching the out OF breath and with scare tat was rea
There was and few minutes the tent
of the Gaspars the horses hhed and off they
went Hawaans and other Portu
not of the Gaspar party fairly good order
had it from when the boys back that they
feared the flow that was approaching road and
the flows either OF winch was likely
to widen o catch like rats in trap
determined though the weather was growing
colder everv minute to STAY thing wrapped
self in the phaeton while the boy
kept guard Presently noticed the between the large ano
fiery left and the starke spot furner
along I'll until there continuous rech OF nre ohs
line of the hill On and the right as WELL
another might be continuation OF TINS nov" eie was
of determining The big flow mentioned In the
the description also got sides of the triangle
evidence before three sides and the space between
single OF boiling lava On occasions
bouders explosion followed Then came
annoying wind and sand that cut into the cheeks ike
needles. !,
This one great flow tearing along directly
standing We watched It tor two
hours hit the the brow
tbe Hill in front of us shooting the heavens with
everything From the center OF the How
rs explosions were taking place hurled
foe in eaIr r q