Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-04-19

time. AT 4:3o more bombs burst and
accelerated the conhagration; at 4:3a
the flames on both sides of Hotel street
were beyond control Efforts were
now concentrated on the corner build
ings on Maunakea street. At ABA the
stable caught the blaze and horses
we're rushed out with all possible
speed. BY this time the fire had
reached
| MAUNAKEA STREET.
At 4:37 a strong gust of wind car
ried cinders and even fire brands to as
sist in the destructive march of the
flames which were also making head
way up Smiths Lane. And now en-
sued a scene which
BATTLES DESCRIPTION.
The instinct of self-preservation
seemed to have bereft the dwellers of
Maunakea street of all presence of
mind. Terror and despair seemed to
have added years to their age. Hastily
they caught up every article they could
and ran they knew not whittier. Many
of Honolulu's young men we're nobly
assisting them, and men worth thous-
ands Of dollars, actuated by sym
pathy, which on such an occasion rises
above the social distinction of caste
and wealth, were seen working like
Trojans for men who we're not worth
as many cents. At 4:48 the building on
Maunakea, opposite Hotel fell into
line. The street was now filled with
burning debris so as to be impossible.
One Chinaman was carrying mattress
on his back. A firebrand about the
size of printers stick fell on it. The
pagan trudged on with his beacon un-
consciously for time, but finally be
coming aware that he had become an
agent for the dissemination of fire,
dropped it with whoop of terror and
reached Beretania street in unprece-
dented time.
AN IMMENSE CARAVAN
was now in procession across Smiths
Bridge AT 4:45 the wind went down.
Maunakea street was foored with
burning debris, and passage beyond
Hotel street was out of the question.
The hremen fought the advancing
flames inch by inch from Hotel toward
Beretania. Along Beretania street
confusion reigned supreme. Men,
women, barows, and even hacks, were
conscripted for common carriers. The
yard and steps Of the Kamakapili
Church were thronged with people and
piled with chattels. At ASS Smith
street was reduced in length about one
quarter. At S P. NJ. another breeze
sprang up which soon died out.
A "MovING SCENE"
was taking place on Beretania street
which could discount the first of May
in New York. Queen Emma's yard
was also confused jumble of human
ity and goods. Nuuanu street had
now joined in the conhagration,
MARSHAL PARKE
was working with the GOODNESS and de-
cison which characterizes him, to con-
fine the fire to the west side of Nuu-
anu street when the PRESS reporter ar
rived. The buildings at the corner
below HOLSTERS old place were yield
ing to the sturdy strokes of our British
friends, who demolished a building
with grapnels and axes almost as
quickly as the fire does. At 5:o7
amid the most desperate battling with
the fiery adversary, dwellers and
property owners rushed out every
article that could be handled. At 5:I5
the flames had advanced to and en-
folded the American House and ex
tended in a straight line to Smiths lane.
On the opposite side the devouring
element had been equally active. The
air was now vocal with exploding
bombs. At 5:a4 the fire had reached
the old Hollister building and leaping
upward had caught the cornice. Hotel
street on both sides, from Nuuanu to
Maunakea, had succumbed to the de-
stroyer and the Cosmopolitan Hotel
was rapidly becoming nothing.
The heat was perfectly terrific.
Ropes were stretched to ex-
clude all but officers, firemen
and representatives of the press
HIS MAJESTY
forgetting for the time his royalty and
remembering only his humanity was
actively experimenting the transfer of
prisoners and effects from the Station
House on King street. At 5;3o the
flames had caught the Nuuanu 'front.'
age of
THE EMPIRE SALOON,
and about a dozen men we're on top
of the building working the hose. AT
$40 flames were noticed through the
closed shutters Of the old Hollister build
ing. The interior was soon a prey to
the relentless fiend. At the same time
the fire had made such progress with
the Empire and adjoining buildings
that the men on the roof were obliged
to desist and descend. Intellectual
attempts were made to extinguish the
fire in HOLSTERS building but the
shutters which kept the fire in also
kept the water out.
His Majesty accompanied by de-
tachment under command of Captain
lIola,, orr;,,eJ a., AHaupoLaa and ordar