Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1899 — LAKE OF BOILING FIRE. [ARTICLE]

LAKE OF BOILING FIRE.

Volcano of Manna Loa Presents a t- pectacle of Grandeur. ’ The main crater in the volcano of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, has ceased to belch forth anything but smoke, but the new crater, two miles down tbe mountain side, continues to feed the great lake of liquid fire which is steadily flowing toward the town of Hilo, which will undoubtedly be destroyed. The scene is one of such grandeur that words fail to describe it. Daring tourists tell of great stones of white heat heaved hundreds'of feet into the air, only to fall back with a terrible hissing roar Into the lake from which they were vomited. Besides the large lake, there are Dorsey"' Clagg.tt, n wHI Deino-