The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-08
FIRE AT THE HAWAIIAN HOTEL.
destruction of Trips Cottage, and
Serious Injury to MIR. TiIden.

Serious Injury to MIR. TiIden.
About half-past o'clock last even
ing the fire alarm was sounded from
the central tower for the 9Th ward,
and the news was quickly spread
that the Hawaiian Hotel was on fire.
This proved to be mistake, as the
fire was confined to the two-story
building known as the Trip Cottage,
standing close to the hotel on the
side next to Richard street.
The alarm was given Immediately
by guests in the hotel, and number
rushed to the cottage, knowing that
Mr.. Joseph Tilden, the manager, was
asleep in one of the rooms on the
ground floor. The door was burst in,
aud the room was found to be filled
with smoke. The fire the next mo-
ment increased in volume, driving
out those who were trying to find
Mr.. Tilden. In spite of the flames,
however, Mr.. Samuel Parker and a
| native named David NahOolewa crept
into the room, and Nahoolewa caught
| hold of Mr.. Tilden's feet and man
aged to drag him from the room, Mr..
| Parker protecting his head from the
! flames.
The flames mounted to the second
floor with great rapidity, driving out
| those who, in the dense smoke, were
| trying to save some of the contents
of the two rooms, which were occupied
by Mr.. r. J. Creighton and Mr.. L.
Montgomery Mather, of the P. G.
ADVERTISER Company.
The flames were too quick for them,
however, and the two gentlemen lost
all they had in the rooms, including
money, valuable papers and dOcu-
ments.
Mr.. Tilden was carried to one Of
the cottages above the hotel, where
medical aid was given him inn
mediately.
The steam fire engines were quickly
on the ground, the China company
taking water from the artesian well
street side, and claiming to have the
first stream on the flames. No. was
placed on the corner of Beretania and
Richard streets No. 1 was at the
corner of Hotel and Richard streets,
and had water on the fire almost the
same time as the China company.
No. was at the tank on the corner
of Alakea and Hotel streets, and
though they had their hose stretched
promptly, yet they had great diff
Guilty in getting open the cover to
the tank, and were, therefore, the last
to get water on the fire.
The powerful streams, delivered by
the four engines, quickly subdued the
flames, but not before they had COM
pletely destroyed the interior of the
cottage, nothing but the blackened
shell of the walls being left standing.
The fire was under the control Of the
firemen in twenty minutes from the
time the alarm sounded, and was ex-
tinguished in another ten minutes.
The sympathy of all went out to
Mr.. Tilden, who, it was ascertained,
was very dangerously burned about
the head, over his whole back, and
on the sole of one foot. He had re-
tired for the night, and being dressed
in wooden pajamas, which caught
fire, the effect of the flames was much
more intense than it would have
been from cotton clothing.
Doctors John and Henri McGrew
and other medical men did all they
could to alleviate the dreadful pain
from the burns, and by the free ap-
piication of oil and -four hoped to ease
his sufferings somewhat. At 1890
p. M. he was reported to be very
dangerously burned and delirious.
His many friends will look anxiously
for further news of his condition this
morning.
The fire is supposed to have origi-
mated from the bursting of kerosene
lamp which was burning in Mr.. Til
denis room.