The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-04-04
The FLOOD PATH
Superintendent RoW3l Speaks Of
the Damage.
NEW STREAM BEDS MADE
Shores Marked With WreCkage.
kahuku Plantation Hit Hard.
Roads s-Boulders- Repair Plans.

w. Z. Rowell, Superintendent of
Public Works, arrived in town yester-
day afternoon, rather bedraggled and
entirely worn out, having made a tour
of the Island on horseback. He left
the city for Koolau on Saturday norm
ing. Over the Pali he was joined by
VIM. Henry, a prominent Road Super
visor. Later Mr.. Weight of Kahuku
plantation made the party a trio to
| Waimea
The first inspection of big pilikia
was at Kahana, where large bridge
had been carried away. The abutments
| are not beyond repair. Most of the
planking can be used again, but nearly
all of the heavy timbers were either
carried away out to sea or badly brok-
en- up. Men are already working on
the foundations and in a couple of
weeks the bridge will be all right
again. Near Kahana the flood cut a
u CAICAl 1OO 1CCI III HIuCu 1uIS Will UC
filled for roadway and provided with
a culVert.
At Punaluu two bridges are gone,
but most Of the material is saved.
Here is another trench 100 feet wide
cut by the rushing waters and must be
spanned a bridge.
AT Hauula the bridge remained ard
another bridge near Hauula was able to
stand all pressure.
AT Laie the 4O-foot bridge is gone
and the stream which it spanned is
widened 10 feet. There will be requir-
ed a new bridge so feet long. On the
beach near Laie, Mr.. Rowel noticed |
hundreds of dead eels. 1t is his belief |
that they were killed by the great |
quantity of muddy water which filled |
thel lagoon.
At Laiewai the 60-foot bridge is gone, |
but the abutments are not hurt The |
wreckage of this bridge struck and car
ried away the Kahuku plantation rail
way bridge which Mr.. Weight is now
replacing, having borrowed from the
Government for the work a Pile driver.
Mr.. ROwell reports very heavy dam 4
age to the cane and fields of Kahuku +
plantation. Great quantities of bOuId-
ers were carried down from the hills
in the cane fields and there can be no
irrigation till new burrows have been
made. In some places large areas of !
cane have been leveled. There may ]
be seen in the road dozens of cords of Y
wood, much of it washed Gear over
the cane fields during the high water.
An enormous amount of new field work :
will be required on a great part of the
The Waimea bridge was $50 feet long
with many thousands of feet of timber
and several tons of metal in it. Not q
4 Yestige Of this material is to be seen. s
1t has gone" Mr. Rowell says, "to i
Kauai, or somewhere else 1t was all "
aiken out to sea with force that can =
scarcely be imagined. One of the foun-
latiOns remains. The other is missing
t
Mr.. Rowell crossed the stream in a
canoe and had a native boy take his I
lOrse away back mauka to ford the {
stream. The very largest trees were O
brought down from the hills and the
natives say the trees came along end
'ver end like circus performers turning
landsprings. The neat little coffee
yiantation that Andrew Cox of Waia- i
ia had in a bit of natural park there .
s wiped away and the grove is cover 9
d with heavy powders. Two houses /
built upon sand" were torn down and 4
he lumber carried away by natives l
Who saw that the cottages would surely
% in a short time. On the hillsides
letween Kahuku and Waimea there
re evidences of considerable land
lides. On the fats everywhere are
elds Of powders. Some of the stones
Weigh half a ton and more. From
Vaimea TO Waialua, there is another
)ng field of powders.
From KoOlau.oa to Waimea wherever
he road had crossed a dry guIch the
Dad is no more. 1t has a simply been
At Waialua two Stre8 ms now enter
he harbOr instead of cne and it will
e necessary to span both with bridges.
etween the mouths Of the streams
here was made during the flood a
tndspit that has made a shallow basin
the former deep water anchorage
)r steamers and schoOners. The reef 4