108 Eruption of Mauna Loa and Kilauea. 
trees, breaking down banks and precipices, demolishing neaty | 
all stone churches and dwellings, and filling the people mi y 
consternation, This shock lasted about three minutes, al 
had it continued three minutes more, with such violence, fF 
houses would have been left standing in Hilo or Kau, Forty 
nately there was but one stone building in Hilo, our prihy 
and that fell immediately. a 
s this awful shock died away, the sea rose some six fet | 
above high water mark, and all the dwellings, stores, machilt | 
shops, etc., near the shore, were in imminent peril. At ie 
Between oe and Keaiva, about twenty-six miles - 
suddenly opened, among the foot hills q 
moment, the houses of Reed and Richardson, of Mr. i q 
and nearly all the native houses in that district, were ® | 
sh 5 along the coast. Bor ] 
many lives were lost by this influx we have not yet ascé | 
I have seen pec aad names of the killed in the earthy ery 
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one-fourth part of Kau, 
from the central and western portions of the district. 
d 
that ev fro 
that region to report. ent no messenger has come 
It is said that the great earth ti Kapapala 
not heated, and that there was ‘sh mpouears Pea sepe dir 
* So Mr. Lyman thinks, 
