The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-20
TWAS A LIVELY STORM.
PARTICULARS OF SUNDAYS DoU 81
FOUR.
Now the city Wa Drenched fr,ord
nj Damage Heic and IheIc.
The Rainfall Measured.

ut Damage we've anu lheIC
The Rainfall Measured.
There was storm indeed yesterday
1t began in the night and the rain fel
so like a cascade from some high preci
pCe that the boom of thunder in tn,
clouds sounded far and faint, and bu
for the violet crackle of lightning. tn,
sight of which made one listen, nigh
not have been heard at ALL Driving
down ON corrugated iron roofs the rail-
submerged all other sounds, even thos,
within the houses. From every cav,
was waterfall. from every slope {
( creek. and the steep places wher,
streams run down from the hills wrr,
: turned into the channels of rapids Oh
the Drinks of cataracts. 1t was Wal
purgis night, indeed. and the wavfarrl
was to be pitied who was out in it.
/ Sunday morning the church going
public looked ont of the windows rue.
| fully. How it poured from dull gray
| and ochre ky which gave no promise
of allegiance. 1t was plain enough that
| the rainy season had set in as if it meant
| to repeat the achievements of the deuge
! among an arkless people. The water
fell in long, level lines that seemed each
| to have the thickness of a stout cord.
Of course the streets were deserted
even for the cars and busscs, and as for
hacks the drivers needed much persua-
sion to induce them to drive out into
the open streets. Few people went to
church.
About the middle of the forenoon a
STAR reporter came down Nuuanu
street. The hill road had been turned
into the bed of a muddy torrent which
fairly Kissed and roared as it rushed to
the more level ground. But it did not
stop there. Swollen by the rain that
continuously fell the stream kept rap
idly on, now and again rising above the
cutters, crossing the sidewalk and tear.
ing along through someone's frontyard.
The two creeks that cross Nuuanu
avenue ran full banks and carried a
great burden of soil to the sea. The
yellow TIber of song and story was
not SO vastly more turbulent than one
of these runlets which, for so great a
part of the year, barely have water
enough in them to glimmer among the
ferns and rocks.
According to G.. j. Lyons the storm
was a nondescript one. 1t was not
kona as the wind was missing and the
barometer was remarkably high A
true kona is always accompanied by
high wind and falling barometer, but
III this case the wind was overhead,
where the clouds changed their course
as in cyclone. The rainfall for the
two days at Punahou was ). G6 inches
and at DR.. Mckibbin's G.52. At Kapi-
olani park, according to G. Browns
gauge the fall was ego, and at f.
Browns place on King street 5.O2
The city is the heaviest loser by the
storm, much of the work on the streets
done last summer having BEEN ruined |
Road Supervisor Cummings estimates
the damage at between $4,000 and $4,000. /
besides the work of every man, team
and wagon belonging to this depart
ment for the next month. The streets
down from Punchbowl to |
Beretania suffered the worst. These
streets were all newly graded only a |
few weeks ago, but the work will have |
to be done over again. At the foot of |
street nearly two feet of
debris was piled up on Beretania, while
the Car tracks for blocks was sub.
At the foot of Punchbowl
street the same state of affairs occurred, !
the water being nearly two feet deep in
places early on Sunday morning.
The street car company also suffered |
from the debris piled up on its tracks
and from interruption to traffic. Men
were at work all night on Saturday and !
at A, NJ, on Sunday morning the tracks
were cleaned, but the subsequent rains
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tania street cars did not run past Vic
toria street until nearly noon, STAR
reporter being on the first through car.
On Nuuanu street travel was more or
less interrupted until still later.
MINOR CASUALTIES.
At $40 p. m. the Fire Department was
called to Lucas Bros planning mill,
where ii quantity of lime stored in "a
shed in the rear of the mill got wet and
took fire. This was removed and all
further danger stopped. The loss was
very slight.
Harrison Bros. had quantity of lime
and cement stored next door. The lime
was removed to dry place, but the
lower tier Of barrels of cement was
nearly covered with water. They will
lose about twenty-five barrels of cement.
Hackfeld & Co.'S warehouse was
flooded with surface water from the
street, but it was pumped out yester-
day. Their loss will not amount to over
5000.
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