The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-04-05
Superintendent R0FRI Speaks Of
the Damage.
NEW STREAM BEDS MADE
shores Marked With Wreckage.
Kahuku Plantation Hit Hard.
ds-Boulders-Repa Plans.

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entirely worn out, having made tour
of the Island on horseback. He left
the city for Koolau on Saturday morn
ing. Over the Pail he was Joined by
WIN. 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 Kabana, where a 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 brCk-
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 food cut
trench 100 feet in width. This will be
filed for a roadway and provided with
q culverl.
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.
Al Hauula the bridge remained and
another bridge near Hauula was able to
stand all pressure.
At Laie the 40-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.. Roweu noticed
hundreds OF dead eels. It is his belief
that they were killed by the great
quantity OF muddy water which filed
the lagoon.
At LaieTai the 6O-foot bridge is gone,
but the abuments 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.
llr. Roweu reports very heavy dam
age 10 the cane and fields of Kahuku
plantation. Great quantities of bould-
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 Ieveled. There may
be seen in the road dozens Of cords OF
wood, much Of II washed clear over
the cane fields during the high water.
An enormous amount Of new field work
viii be required on a great part Of the
plantation.
TIL VE-1ir,,zs 1,r-i7 90 7r-s.- F-n co. In =,
with many thousands of feet of timber
and several tons of metal in it. Not
3 vestige Of this material is 10 be seen.
1t has gone" Mr. RoWeu says, ito
Kauai, or somewhere else" It was all
taken out TO sea with force that can
scarcely be imagined. One Of the foun-
datiOns remains. The other is missing
entirely.
Mr.. ROWell crossed the stream in a
canoe and had q native boy take his
horse away back mauka to ford the
stream The very largest trees were
brought down from the hills and the
natives say the trees came along end
over end like circus performers turning
handsprings The neat little coffee
plantation that Andrew Cox of Waia-
lua had in a bit Of a natural park there
IS wiped away and the grove is cover
ID with heavy powders. Two houses
built upon sand" were torn down and
the lumber carried away by natives
who saw that the cottages would surely
20 IN a short time On the hillsides
between KahUku and Waimea there
are. evidences Of considerable land
slides. On the fats everywhere are
fields Of powders. Some Of the stones
weigh half a ton and more. From
Waimea 10 Waialua, there is another
long field OF powders.
From hOolaulOa 10 Waimea wherever
The road had crossed a dry gulch the
road is no more. It has a simply been
obiiterated.
Al Waialua two streams now enter
The harbor instead of one and it will
be necessary TO span both with bridges.
Between the mouths of the streams
there was made during the flood a
landspit that has made shallow basin
OF the former deep water anchorage
Tor steamers and schooners. The reef
all about the harbor is covered with
trees- There had been over the origin
al Waialua stream a foot bridge 100
feet long. There had been handed in
q requisition for money to make this
bridge for teams. The foot bridge
was carried away in sections. one
part was stopped 300 feet from its pro
per place and the other half was car
ried TO the sea. Nearly all Of the ma
Lerial has been saved.
At Opeulu two 6O-foot bridges are
gone, but the abutments stand and
about al the material can be used
again.
From the bridge near Halsteads
mill one abutment was all but taken
away. but the bridge has been made
safe and is in use.
The Long Bridge" in the direction
OF Mokuleia from Halstead's was late
y repaired and held together in good
style. The wooden piles were a few
months ago replaced by stone abut-
ments.
On to town from Mokuleia. the
bridges are all intact and the road is