The morning call., 1893-10-18
HARD ANDFAST'
The Miowera Wrecked
at Honolulu.
SHE RAN ON A REEF.
Impatience for a Pilot the
Cause.
EFFORTS TO FLOAT HER.
All the Vessels Helped, but They
Could Do Nothing.
THERE is BUT ONE HOPE LEFT.
If Wrecking Apparatus Can Be Pro-
cured Before a Storm Comes
She May Be Saved.
EFFORTS TO FLOAT HER.
All the Vessels Helped, but They
Could Do Nothing.
IS BUT ONE HOPE LEFT.

HONOLULU, Oct. 1.-THE magnificent
steamer Mlowera of the Cansdian-Aus-
tralian line, due at Victoria on October 9.
lies hard and fast on the coral reef just
outside the entrance leading TO Honolulu
harbor, and what is worse is likely to re-
main there. The Australia has been
chartered by the agents Of the Can
adian-Austrslian line 20 convey the
passengers. mails and freight of
the stranded steamer to your city
to carry the news of the safety of the pas
sengers TO inquiring friends and the In
formation of her whereabouts and present
pTedicament to her owners and agents il
Vancouver in time to send the necessary
instructions. wrecking implements. etc,
By the Mariposa, which leaves your city
ON the 18th. To this end the firm OF
Theodore H. Davies & Co. of this city
have paid Spreckels & Co. $4,000 to send
the Australia off three days ahead of time.
On the evening of Monday, October 2, at
about o'clock, the lookout on the Dia-
mond Head signal station reported by tele-
phone the Miowera fifteen miles off. As
is usual, in case an ocean liner is sighted,
the operators of both the Mutual aud Bell
lines telephoned the pilots, port doctor,
port surveyor and newspaper Offices. One of
the regulations of the Board Of Health here
is that no pilot shall board vessel until
the port physician has made his examina-
tion. In pursuance of this order it has
been customary for all the officials to go
out in the same boat, but it has generally
only taken them half an hour to get started.
On this particular occasion they were So
minutes in reaching the entrance to the
chaulel, some say much more, and when
they tot there the electric lights of the
steamer showed her to be hard and fast on
the outer reef. and when they boarded her
she had been fast for some minutes.
At 500 P. NJ. the vessel struck the reef
at quarter speed, bow Oh. plowed her way
through the sand and pumped right down
on the coral in the center, where she came
to q stop. There was little or no shock,
the sand having stopped her headway, and
no alarm was felt by any one on board.
The engines were Immediately reversed at
full speed, but no effort could bulge
her Pilot LorenZen boarded her a few
minutes after she struck, and with the
captain look charge of subsequent maneu-
vers. Harbor-mas.er Fuller reached the
vessel few minutes after and, discover
Ing her perilous position. hailed her to
know if she wanted tug The answer
being in the affirmative. be hurried back
and ordered out the Government tug
Eleu.
AS seon as steam could be got up this
little vessel started for the wreck, and, by
the aid of a large whaleboat, got line
aboard of her. A new nine-inch hawser
was soon fastened from the stern of the
Miowera to the tug, and all night
long the little vessel pulled and tugged
her m1ghtiest to save the big one,
the latter reversing her immense
propeller at her highest speed all the while.
Twice the hawser broke during the night
time and twice it was repaired-no easy
matter. either. considering the heavy surf
always rnDning at this point. About mid
night the Minister Of the Interior, Captain
j. A. King, who was formerly superiD-
tenaent Of the Wilder Steamship Company
and who is a practical seaman, with the
experience of a lifetime, the Attorney
General and representatives of the press,
including The CALL correspondent, who
had gone OUT on the tug, clambered up the
side Of the steamer and got Oh board, re-
naming till morning. 1t was soon found
that all the work previously done had only
kept the vessel from going further on
the reef and that nothing more than that
could be expected until high tide at 10
o'clock next morning. There was not a
particle of excitement on board, only two
or three of the male passengers being on
deck. All the others, ladies included, were
sound asleep in their cabins, having been
assured that there was no immediate dan
ger, and that the vessel would get off in
the morning. if not before.
Captain Stott made the following state.
ment to the press representatives:
II wish to say that the first land I saw
was the hill directly back of the town,
which took for Diamond Head. as thai
was entirely covered by clouds, and there
being no light upon il. naturally took
the land furthest to windward for Dia-
mond Head.
We took our bearings by the sun al
neon. and later on also, and reckoning
p: our speed from the last sights, thought
we were several miles further off than
We were and should have been If the
speed had been correctly registered.
Itere were no lights on the buoys. and
there was absolutely nothing to warn
me OF any danger. came along at
slow speed until l picked up the red light
ana, little later. the green. Atthat time
:. was long way to windward of the line
OF the lights, and, OF course, knew that
whenl had them in line l would have a
leading light. Consequently, l came very
slowly to ieeward. and while yet to wind
ward of the leading light, the green light
suddenly went out. stopped the engines
and just then man in the bows sang ont
that there was a buoy on the starboard
bow, and close aboard. l took a sounding
and found six fathoms of water, and
while / appTehended no danger /
believed that that was little enough water