The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-25
Bark COlusa Goes on the Reef in
Kahnlui Harb0r.
SAVED BY The KINAU AND MAUI
After Being Hard and Fast for
Eighteen Hours-Vessei Escapes
With Slight Injury.

The bark Colusa with a general car
cisco for Kahului. went on the reef just
outside that harbor on last Saturday
morning at $50 O'Clock. The vessel
struck about a mile to the windward OF
the harbor, in a remarkably smooth sea
and with a rising tide: Pilot Bob
English was engaged in taking out the,
John Smith and the Colusa's captain
was evidently in too much of a hurry
to wait for HIM to get back. In try
ing to make port he sailed too close to
the shore and the Colusa grounded on
narrow reef on both sides of which
there was deep water. The center OF
the vessel struck hard and fast on the
reef the bow and stern being both
The steamer Maui, which was at an
chor in Kahului harbor, at once went
| to the assistance of the stranded YES
sci and within an hour after had
hawser fast This broke with the
strain OF the first hard pull, but was
soon replaced with olners. For six
teen hours the Maui had her lines on
the Colusa and kept up strong steady
pull but the stranded vessel could not
be moved.
In the meantime the telephone had
been set to work and the steamer XII
| nau was reached with a message just
as she was leaving Kihei. She went
at once to Kahului, arriving there at
| 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. By
| 5 o'clock she had her strongest hawser
made fast, but the united efforts of
| both steamers could not get the Colusa
off her perilous position.
Among those interested in the vessel
who received notification of her pre-
dicament by telephone were J. p. Cooke
and w. J. Lowrie. When it is stated
that the Colusa had the first install
ment of the big waterpipe for the new
Spreckelsville pumping system, as well
as big lot of pumping machinery for
the same, two big rollers and lot of
other material for Paia plantation, it
can readily be seen where their inter-
est came in. The loss Of the iron pipe
amounted to delay of eight mOnthA
in duplicating it and set the planta-
tion back a year. When these two
gentlemen reached the scene of the
wreck they found that Captain Ewart
had concluded to throw everything
overheard in the hope of tightening the
vessel. They went on board and oh
jected most strenously and in the lang
uage of the Advertisers informant
they "camped with the captain" until
he coincided with their plans. A large
gang of natives were put to work at
once and in six hours the entire deck
load of redwood railroad ties and
such light material was thrown over
board and f1oated safely to shore. The
two lighters in port were brought
alongside and rapidly loaded with the
iron piping, worth SIS length, and
other machinery, as fast as it could be
got out of the hold, the Kinau and the
Maui in the meantime not relaxing
their efforts to pull the vessel off.
At o'clock on Sunday morning the
Colusa gave signs of moving from her
bed of coral, the two steamers strained
at their hawsers to their very utmost
and suddenly the Colusa slid into deep
water, as far as known, at this time
comparatively uninjured, though prob