The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-11
HEAVY RAIN STORM.

uEAvI MAIN oIUhWs
About 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing it commenced to rain and to-
wards noon it came down in torrents,
not letting up until about 9 o'clock
this morning. Since then it has been
raining, but not quite so hard as in
the early part of the day. The da-
mage done by this storm will amount
to many hundreds of dollars. The
lower part of the town along Queen
street was almost entirely under
water, particularly Alakea street.
The block next to the Mutual Tele-
phone Co. building, running from
Merchant to Queen streets, is ell
tirely under water, and the occu-
pants of the cottages had to move
their things up stairs or take them
elsewhere to place of safety. Very
early this morning the water there
was over two feet high. 1t has gone
down considerably since then, but
about foot remains.
The Nuuanu Valley stream was
much swollen, and considerable da-
mage has been done at the second
bridge. The water came down last
night with terrific force, and this
morning, on the mauka side Of the
bridge, there is a gap in the road
eighteen feet by four, which has
been washed away into the stream,
taking with it two of the new water
pipes. The noise of the water, as it
rushed along, could be heard long
way off.
The stream running from Rockies
Valley rose yesterday, between a
quarter before five O'Clock and a
quarter past, between eight and ten
feet high and three or four times as
wide. Mr.. w. S. Luce had some
land ploughed recently, and there
were hundreds of hills of earth
washed away by this freshet. A pig
belonging to him died of fright.
Mr.. J. f. Browns residence on
King street was entirely surrounded
by water, looking like lake with a
house in the centre.
At Waikiki q tremendous lot of
damage has been done. This end
of Kapiolani Park is entirely under
water. Mr.. Cecil Brown estimates
the damage to his property at about
5000. About $500 worth of black
sand was entirely washed away. An
embankment 10 feet high near the
Lemon homestead wa. washed away
out to sea. Mr.. Henry Macfarlane' s
fishponds were washed away and the
fish have gone to sea.
On opening the corner store OF
the Temple of Fashion this morning
it was found to contain two inches
of water, and in the Custom House
storehouse there is over three inches
Messrs. Hackfeld & Co.'s cellar has
about three inches of water in it
and laborers are at work with buck.
cts bailing it out. Other places
have suffered to pretty nearly the
same extern.
Out along the Palama Road thu
country looked this morning like
Dutchland with the dykes bursted
The Princess Liliuokalani's garden
was like miniature archipelago, thu
water flowing deep on all the paths
From the seams Of the stone retain
ing wall on the town side gushed
hundred tiny cascades. In places TIN
drain overhowed the road. Chimes
vegetable gardens were beneath tn
flood, and plant after plant let go it
clutch of the soil and was washe,
into the roadside torrent. A nativ
woman was seen wading kneedee
across a lot out to the road. tn
road leading to st. Louis Colleg
from King street was lake for it
whole breadth, deep enough to fioa
a canoe. Coming into town, betwee
the bridge and Maunakea street, Sc
veral yards length of heavy cora
rock fence lay PROSTATE on the mau
ka sidewalk. 1t had evidently bee
undermined by the freshet, and pas
sengers would do well to avoid goin
close to the portion of the wall sti
standing.
About ten O'Clock this morning til
sky lightened up little, but at moo
the rain was again coming down i
drenching volume. AT two ocloc
the symptoms betokened anythin
but clearing up this evening.