Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-04-20
After the Fire.

Daylight yesterday furnished clearer
conception of the ravages of Sundays
fire. Blackened heaps of smoldering
debris, stone walls blackened, scorched
and cracked, and trees stripped of YER
dure stand like monuments over the
grave of the past. The streets resound-
ing to the din of business and the
pave ringing under the elastic step Of
joyous youth, are now thronged with
other forms. Laborers extinguishing
the dying embers or raking over the
cold ashes, idle saunterers along the
desolated streets are principally to be
seen. Here and there one meets a
man whose downcast mien and deep
drawn signs reveal desolation of the
mind almost as pitiable as the waste
which lies around.
Below Meek street, on King num-
Der of men we're trying to open safe
belonging to Apai. The heat had
warped the doors and sides, and oil
was freely used to turn the combina-
ton.
Nothing was injured at Mossman's
store and the building sustained no
damage whatever. Mr.. Mossman
lost a small storehouse at the back
The ladies of all the churches have
been giving lunch at the Fort-street
Church to the sufferers by the fire. Up
to noon three hundred had availed
themselves Of this generosity.
All during the day men were en-
gagged in pulling down the walls Of
Wing Wo CHAINS building. In the
morning the safe was opened and
| $751; taken therefrom.
In every direction on the burnt area
the elevation of telephone poles was
actively progressing.
A mistake occurred in yesterdays
PRESS in speaking of the blowing out Of
No. rs cylinder. We are informed by
one of the company, that it did not
occur.
Wolfe & Edwards, who we're burned
out at the corner of Nuuanu and King
streets are permanently located oppo-
site the Old Corner on Queen street
The property occupied by them and
consumed by the fire belonged to Mrs
l. B. Peterson.
The burnt section comprises an area
of about sixty acres.
1t is rumored that the great calam-
Iity has caused meeting of the Privy
Council.
immigration depot has been kindly
placed temporarily at the disposal o.
the victims of the conhagration.
In another column the officers of the
United Chinese society return thank:
to the public for kindness during and
after the late sad ordeal.
The following is rough statement
of the amount covered by insurance
In the Fireman's Fund Insurance Co
Chulan & Co., had $1,000, Wing
Wo Tai & Co., $1,000. In the Liver
pool, London and Globe Insurance
Co., Mossman had $1,000. In thu
Sun Fire Insurance Co. of London
the Empire Saloon had $500, "
Wo Chan & Co., $4,000, G. w. Mac
farlane & Co., $500. In the Prussiar
National Insurance Co., Wolfe & Co.
$1,5oo, C. Apaia, $1,000, Macfarlan'
& Co., $500. In the South British
Co., The International had $8,6a5. Il
the. Hartford, sundry persons haC
$3.50 In the Commercial Insurance
Co., sundry persons had $4,000. In tn
Commercial Union Co. of London
Paiko Block had $4,000. In the I'm
perial Insurance Co. of London
: Wing Wo Tai & Co., $1,000
In the Transatlantic Co., sundry pei
sons had $4,000. In the Royal In
+ surauce Co. of Liverpool, sundry per
/ sons had $4,000. In the Union @
New Zealand, sundry persons hat
$4,000. In the Northern Insuranc
Co., sundry persons had $500. Il
the Hamburg-Bremen Co., Wing w
Tai & Co. had $1,000. In the Ham
burg Magdeburg Co., sundry person
) had $4,000. In the Lion Insuranc
: Co., sundry persons had $1,000 1
: the Washington Co., sundry person
had $4,000. Total covered by insu
ance, $2r6,67s.
An accurate schedule of the losse
7 is in preparation.