HERO ON A VOLCANO.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 September 1924, Page 6

HERO ON A VOLCANO.

STIRRING TALE OF KILAUEA

MAN ON HEAVING LAVA

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean a young man was recently saved by a brave deed from a terrible death. The young man is Mr.. Geoff ry H. Bushby, and, says a London paper, lie is one of 360 people who were sailing round the world on the Empress of Canada. The vessel stopped ■at Hawaii .and the company 'went ashore to look at the famous crater of Kilaeua. Most of them stood on the outer edge looking into the enormous hollow of the crater. Mr. Bushby, not content with seeing the volcano at a distance, had climbed down a cliff 535 feet deep into the cup of the volcano. With him was Mr. Augustus D. Curtis, of Chicago, who stopped on a ledge to take photographs. Mr Bushby went on a little farther, and crossed the quiet lava beds to peer into the very mouth of the volcano. Suddenly a terrible growl arose out ?/ Die volcano’s heart. It seemed as it the monster was angry. A cloud of smoke arose, and after it came a sheet it nre, its glow filling the crater and its n<2<vfc rising to the outex* edge whero the 300 tourists stood in horror. As fiey.stared down they saw the lava cad begun to heave, and across it they iaw staggering the form of Mr. Buslicy Over these waves of solid matter sinking and rising under his feet,, with a sheet of red light, it seemed, thrown ■•ound him, the young man made his ; va T as best he might. Before he got to the cliff he was overcome with smoke, and he fell at the foot of the rock wall. F lV e hundred feet of hard climbing lay between him. and safety. 3ehmd lnm fell the first showers of lava.

The spectators, peering through the smoke, then saw a sight that made their hearts stand still. Mr. Curtis, a man nearly 60, was climbing down this terrible wall. He reached the foot of cue clift, lifted Bushby, and began to climb back- again, witli the smoke and are growing thicker about him. For some distance this brave man carried the unconscious figure up the cliff. Before he had got half-way,' two young men, one a, captain in the Norwegian army and the other a Hawaiian soldier had scrambled down to meet him. One took Mr. Bushby, and the other helped the gallant'old gentleman into safety again J

cpb® Empress of Canada, ca it vinomth her one of the bravest of heroes sailed away with the volcano*an an°-ry spitting monster on her horizon line? ’