The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-10-10

Z towing OF Yesterday was therefore
done from the bow, the intention
being to tow her across and over the
one hundred feet ot reef.
AT noon Yesterday before high tide
large. the towing vessels took up pO-
sitionS rs follows: The Adams as
mentioned was stationed near the
spar buoy, about one thousand feet
from the steamer.
The Hawaii came next with the
tug Eleu close TO her rear. A little
way of to the starboard Of the tug
was the steamer Likelike.
From to o'clock, the four towing
steamers struggled to bring the Mo
vera seaward, but at the end of that
time the vessel had not moved. There
was only eleven feet of water at the
bow of the grounded ship, while the
depth at and around the stern was
seventeen feet.
During the pull, the Likelike lost
an anchor and chain. Seeing that it
was useless to continue towing yester-
day afternoon, as the tide had already
receded several inches below high tide
mark, the signal was given to the
Adams, Hawaii, Eleu and Likelike to
cease working.
The tug Eleu brought in message
from Captain Stott to his agents on
shore 10 procure for him 5000 pound
anchor with a four aud a half inch
wire cable, if such could be gotten in
this city. A two ton anchor with wire
cables will be taken out to the steamer
this morning. Captain Rice of the tug
stated that he had used up three new
coils of seven-ineh hawsers since Mon
day night, but his supply has not yet
run out.
The tug went out to the MiOwera
yesterday afternoon again, and re-
turned at o'clock bringing ashore
Captain ]. A. King. w. o. Smith and
w. f. Rowell. The tug will go out to
the stranded vessel again this morn
ing.
II. Haekfeld q Co. 5 steam scow and
barge brought ashore during yester-
day the saloon furniture, consisting of
chairs, benches, rugs, etc. They were
stored last night under the Inter
Island Steamship Companyis sheds.
Prof. c. ]. Lyons, of the survey de
partment, drew a diagram yesterday
showing the various positions of the
Miowera since her first stranding.
Ait t4ltilN gives u very ClthI lNleA OA
the various positions the MiOwera has
been in.
After the steamers quit pulling on
the Mlowera last evening, and the
anchors We're out and everything
settled down quietly for the night, the
scene aboard was one typical of ship
wreck, and although dfvested of the
horrors of what would have been the
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tance from a port, il was still one of
desOlation, and made picture long TO
be remembered by those who saw il.
The decks, which so short time
before had been white and free from
all muss and litter, were black and
grimy with coal dust and Uttered
everywhere with the odds and ends of
wreekage. Chunks of coal, bits Of
wood, rope ends, blocks, and gear of
all kinds were in a hopeless and, to a
landsman, bewildering muss and tan
gle. The deck, state rooms and social
hall wore still more gloomy and de-
serted look Every part and parcel of
the movable furniture had been
sent ashore in the scows, and
the only piece of furniture re-
manning in the room was the
piano, which had a strangely out Of
place appearance in the midst Of so
much desOlate ruin. To the imagin-
ative it might have appeared as a fit
scene for a DEVILS festival with the
piano as a musical accompaniment
for fiendish revels. The carpets were
gone, and the floor dusty and marked
by the tramp of many cOaldust-laden
shoes. The chairs and writing desks
had vanished, and the cushions and
coverings from the wooden settees had
been taken away.
Around the railing above the COM
panion way leading down into the
dining saloon were a few green shrubs
and ferns growing in pots, which gave
an air of dead life to the whole scene
which put the beholder in mind Of a
graveyard, so strangely out of place
did the life seem in the room of death
like stiffness, and the piano at the
other end of the room might well
have been taken for a huge coffin
standing on trestles and covered with
a low changing cloth.
Between decks the scene was even
more ruinOus than above, if such
thing were possible. In the dining
saloon under the little green oasis
blooming in the desert above, there
was almost as much wreckage andM
riffraff floating about, though of ~
different kind, as on the main deck.
All the tables but one had been taken
down, the handsomely upholstered
revolving dining chairs were gone,
the plush cushioning had disappeared
from around the upright stanchions,
and through the litter on the floor
could be traced the black foot prints,
telling the story of coal jettfsoned,
and flying dust.
One taOle had been left standing
and at this the officers and cabin
help took their meals. The two hand
some marDle-topped sideboards at the
forward end of the saloon had lost all
their drawers, and were piled high
with baskets, table cloths ana what
not, and looked not at all conducive to
that festiyity TO which they are sup
posed to commonly contribute.
Under the brilliant, though ghost
ly glare Of the electric liphfs
lay the scum of blue ruin and
in the midst of it like the voice Of
a fiend newly arrived from the lower
sounded the shrill unbuman
voice Of red Australian parrot. raised
in q querilOus protest against fba ~