The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-11-26
A TNENIYFOR HOURS transform VISITS
THE ISLANDS WITH SELDOM EXCEEDED FLOODS


them immense freshets came swirling
down overtopping and OVerruning the
embankments. At o'clock this morn
ing the reservoirs were full and run
ming over. All about them the water
lay by acres, in dull threatening lakes.
1t looked like it wanted to get out and
descend upon the city, but could not
on account of the lay of the land. In
the meanwhile however, torrents swept
down the Liliha stream and Nuuanu
street. Above the cemetery, on Nuu-
anu, drain had been put in to entice it
into less turbulent ways, but the flood
ignored this bait and dashes madly on
ward cutting the street almost at. right
angles above Judd street Pauoa
stream rose to the limit of it's banks and
at Nuuanu street roared like a live
tfing.'
Pacific Heights had it's share of the
storm, though not so bad as the Puunul
side 1t rained all night up there and
this morning there was danger of
flood. Some parts of the road were
washed away and traffic was interrupt
ed. With the excellent drainage, how
ever, the surplus water soon found its
way to the lowlands.
On Nuuanu street the car tracks were
submerged under the sand and water,
and the early cars had difficulty in
reaching the Pauoa terminus. The
o'clock car arrived there at 1880 and
1t was nearly noon before the system
was strengthened out and any attempt
made to keep regular schedules
In Kalihi the rain was also eXcep-
tional heavy. Torrents came down
from the mountains all over the valley,
and in many places the roads were bad
| ly damaged Achi's addition in Palama
| is still under water. Numerous small
things about the yards were carried
away from this locality.
OUT AT WAIKIKI.
There is probably no section which
shows the evidences of the storm any
more than does the district along the
| Waikiki road but fortunately little if
| any material damage has been done
| that quarter. Scarcely a private yard
| has escaped being overflowed and in
many of the houses the cellers were
covered with any where from two to six
| inches of water. The road has thus far
remained intact and there are no indi-
| cations that the freshets will cut up
| the track very much.
| The Apukehau stream close to the
| Waikiki annex early showed the evil
| dence of heavy rains in the mountains
| and in the valleys for it soon began to
rise and by 6 o'clock was fully two feet
higher than marked it's course the night
before. The extra large volume of
water cut a wide swarth as it rushed
down the confines of the narrow course
into the sea- The banks along the
mouth were cut away and it was feared
| at one time that a portion of the
grounds of the annex might be inunda-
| ted. No danger of the bridge being
carried away was entertained however.
From this point on into town the wa
] ter was banked on both sides of the
road at one moment higher on the
mauka side and at others raised almost
to level with the car track on the ma
l., 4 fNv, FIAtr iCh 10
a sink of tHo land. No injury to the
banana groves was reported but the
Chinese residents along the road had
considerable with which to contend,
with their yards overtlowel, their lower
floors in many instances inundated and
their roofs leaking badly under the
heavy driving rain that marked the
night and early part of the morning.
GOOD WEATHER FOR DUCKS.
1t was a fine day for ducks but the
ducks on the farms did not seem to en-
joy the opportunity for proving the
truth of the old saying for they remain
y ed under cover all day during the storm.
Every pond was filled TO the brim and
several overfowed their banks and en-
tirely inundated the section in that vi
cinity. In spite of all this rrodigaility
of water the joyous quack 0f the duck
was not heard abroad and 50 far as the
web-foOts were concerned silence reign
| ed upon the face OF the wa er6.
From a weakling which could scarcely
crawl it's way back to the cradle OF
Mother Ocean the Makik stream
sprang into the strong vigorous life OF
! a mountain freshet and went boiling
and leaping and swapping through the
high, narrow, cement ditch line which
! kept it we'll in hand and prevented ar
overflow until after the stream turned
Waikiki from the road. There the full
| force of the volume of water found no
) thing to hold it and rice patches, tarC
, patches, pasture lands, gardens fish
ponds and duck ponds We're soon recei
7 wing a wealth of dark, brown muddy
water that they had not known in years
A FLOOD OF FISH.
=. While this portion of the flood caus
ed loss and trouble to the owners of thu
sections inundated it proved source o
profit and amusement to the residents
in KewalO for practically every famil!
down there have fish for the next few
days. When the waters emptied int
the fish ponds and caused them to over
flow their banks the scores of mullet
ava, oopu and aholehole stored in tn
ponds were released and carried aloni
by the freshet. There was no well de
fined stream or street along which tn
water could go but the opposition o