The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-01-19
KAALA A COMPLEIENRFCK WILL TALK 70 THE CABINET
GOT ON THE KAHUKU REEF LAST
NIGHT.
Broken in Two by the Heavy Swell
Total Loss to the Inter Island Com
pany-Sugar is Lost.

pany-Sugar is LoSt.
The bones of the Inter Island Compa-
NY steamer Kaala lie raclIing on the
rocks in Xahuku harbor, and the 2000
bags of sugar that formed her cargo
have gone to sweeted the salt waves.
The Kaala met her fate on the Kahu-
ku bar shortly after ) o'clock last
evening, striking on and pounding so
quickly that Captain Mosher had no
chance of getting her on the beach.
She is now a total wreck. having bro
ken completely in two, and is rapidly
going to pieces in the rough swell.
The news of the disaster was teie-
phoned to Captain Campbell by Cap
tain Mosher, master of the wrecked
steamer about o'clock last night. At
ter the officers ana crew of the Kaala
had safely reached the shore in the
ships boats. At that time Captain Mo-
sher had some hopes of saving some
thing from the wreck: but this morn
ing he reports that the swell last
night broke the steamer in two, drop
ping her engine on the bottom, and
that she will likely go to pieces dur
ing the day. Neither officers nor crew
saved anything of their personal eff
fects. The crew will come over the
Pail today, but Captain Mosher will re-
main by his vessel until tomorrow af-
ternoon, at least
From all accounts the loss Of the
vessel was not due to any careless on
the part of her master. She had TAX
e,,I L nd al
left there at > o'clock. as usual. for
this city. The weather was bad and
the sea rough on the bar, but not any
worse than it had been a score OF
times before when the i<aala had pass
ed out safely.
From all accounts she was Steaming
slowly over the bar, when blind sea
suddenly rolled under her, and she
was dropped into the deep trough in
its wake. There is not more than fiji
teen feet on the bar at any time, ano
being thus dropped into the deer
trough of the sea, the Kaala struck
bow on. the bar. Before she could
recover her headway, a second big sea
swung her bow around, and Il third
bigger than the preceding ones, pour
Gu ONti htl ucchS; lali y SNoh'p'''S :
her.
Seeing how matters stood, Captain
Mosher tried to swing in shore, in tn,
hope of Bleaching the vessel, but IT
was too late. Fairly buried beneath
the heavy seas she settled and sanh
in seven feet of water. The boat.
then manned and the officers and the
crew pulled ashore.
During the night the steamer wa,
pounded and battered by the heavy
surf until she was broken in two an1
fairly gutted by the rush of waters.
Captain Campbell said this mornin.
that the Kaala would prove "A tota
loss to the company, as she was not
insured. He fixes the loss at about
100000. The Kaala was built at Sar
Francisco about ten years ago by the
Dickey Brothers, and was intended
particularly for trade about this Is
land. Her registered tonnage was 12S
The loss on the sugar is about $4,000
covered by insurance.
The Kahuku bar is one of the mos
dangerous places on the Oahu coast
Several schooners have been lost ther,
in years gone by. The month of Jan
uary has proved an unlucky one fo
the Inter Island company, for in tha
month it has lost no less than thre
| fine steamers. The last steamer los
by the company was the Pele, abou
| four years ago, on the Kauai coast
Captain Mosher, the master of tn
wrecked steamer, has been especiall
unfortunate at sea. He was mate q
| 81, Ntf IL on
in the dead of winter and spent sixty
three hours in an open boat before il
was picked up. He was mate of til
snip Portland Lloyds when she wa
| almost foundered in hurricane an,
! lost number of men, and he lost tn
old Atlanta on the Vancouver coast il
mid-winter, on which occasion, witt
! a number of the crew, he floated abou
| for several DAYS on the roof of tn
| deck house. Much sympathy is eN
| pressed for him in his present misfol
tune, as he is "A popular captain.
The Kaala was the steamer that wa
chartered to take Senator Morgan an
the congressman who accompanle
him over Pearl Harbor. She was N
excellent boat
The Inter Island company will lik,
| ly replace the Kaala with a larger an
finer steamer in the near future. A
ter the railroad is completed, theI
will be no further use for a steamer !
the Kahuku trade, as the sugar wi
then come down by rail. The nc'
boat will he one capable of tradin
anywhere between the Islands.
So far as can be learned, previou
vessels wrecked on the Kahuku coas
have been the Marion. Apeana Lon,
Heeia and Live Yankee.
When Won cannot s1eeD for couphin