The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-11-27
MAUI AND
THE KONA
Extent of Damage Done
By the Storm.
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LOSS IS CONSIDERABLE
lao Valley Suffers GreatIy--Roads are
Washed 0ut--What the
News Says.

press last Saturday morning very little
was known of the actual damage done
by the Kona storm and 1t was Tues
day before full reports reached Wal
luku.
y great deal of damage was done in
lao valley, principally on Thursday
night and Friday morning. The flood
of water which came down began it's
work of destruction at the head of the
pipe system of the water works. Last
, weeks News reports as to the de-
struction are confirmed but the dam
Iage was greater than was then stated.
From the first crossing up nearly to
the second the river overaowed it's bed
and changed it's channel, flowing di
rectly down the pipe line. The pipe
was uncovered, and as it was in the
bed of the new stream, huge boulders
were carried down, crushing the pipe
into fragments. The road was also
washed out, so that it Is now difficult
to go up the valley on horseback, even.
Above the second crossing the pipe was
also washed out and crushed by bould-
ers. Practically, the Mpe system above
the first crossing is a total wreck, be-
yond all hope of repair.
| Below the first crossing and at the
point where the lao valley begins to
widen out the huge volume of water
soverilowed the banks Of the stream and
tcut numberless new channels, washing
( out the taro patches, rice fields and
! cottages that We're in its path AT a
point some distance above the tunnel
being run by Mr. Waldeyer for the
/ Wailuku Sugar Co., the whole river left
| it's old bed at a bend in the stream on
! the Waihee side, and cut new bed
! through the cane and tarO patches,
/ forming quite an island. a dam is be-
! ing put across the new stream at it's
point of deviation, with a view of fore
ing it back into the old channel. For
tunately, but little damage was done
to the tunnel, the new stream having
paralleled it down to the cut, where
the new stream entered the cut, wash
ling out the fumes and finally filling
lit up with gravel
! Just above the bridge across the
river on Market street the water
sought new channel on the Waihee
side running under the fish market and
adjacent buildings and doing some in
jury to the road. Another heavy storm
one would permanently change the
iCourse of the stream and leave the
present bridge high and dry.
DAMAGE AT LAHAINA.
The storm ragged with great severity
at Lahaina, The Bangor, the vessel
reported by the mail carrier last week
| as being in great danger. drifted to
within twenty-five feet Of the reef. She
had but one anchor and two bowlines
made fast to the buoy and was barely
able to hold.
Between 10 and 100 grown trees were
blown down in the town, fortunately
doing no further damage. a heavy
wash came down from the hills, de-
stroying some cane ON the Pioneer
plantation. The worst damage done !
was the filling up the pit of the La
haina pump, a new Worthington. A |
part of the rock wall around the pit |
was toppled over, falling on the pump
'and doing it considerable injury. The |
mud and rocks We're dug out and the
injured portions of the machinery were
taken out and shipped to Honolulu for |
repairs.
The Olowalu plantation suffered Sc
verely from the wash from the hills. 7
several tracts OF young cane being
completely buried out OF sight.
THE ROADS.
Mr. f. Kohler, bookkeeper at the Pi
oneer plantation, Lahaina, accompan
led by Captain SAKE of the Euterpe,
came over from Lahaina to Wailuku .
last Monday on horseback being five .
hours on the road. They report that
from Lahaina to Olowalu there is but !
little damage done to the road From
Olowalu to the foot of the pail. how
ever they report the road to be in a
very damaged condition, In number .
OF places for nifty yards It IS fun of big
boulders. In other places huge wash
outs are cut through the road.
Across the pail much damage has
been done, In many places vast heaps
of mud have been piled up in the road.
\ number ~ the rock walls on the low
or side of the road have broken loose,
opening lateral gaps several Inches
wide for their entire length, the crey-
ices being too deep To see the bottom 4
~ them
From Maalaea Bay TO Waluku there
are number ~ deep washouts across
tho road. Mr. Kohler states that II /,
viii take from six weeks 60 two months +
10 repair the road and that II viii cost
several thousand dollars,
From Thursday ~ last week until
Tuesday ~ this week the road from
MakaWap a. kuhului was impossible
on account ~ the mui deposits In the
low places Wauuku. which gets he
milk supply from MakaNao, had tn|
take lla epnfp and tea straight" from
last Thursday en- Tuesday ~ lhs
Reek
THE PLANTATIONS
The destruction ~ cane and eanr
lands on lhs plantations ls MOI nearly