The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-27
DAMAGE BY
THE STORM.
Honolulu Suffers Some
Injury by Floods.
RAILROAD TRA Ms DELAYED
Streets in Some Districts lmpass-
able and Traffic Hindered
Greatly.


yesterday by the storm. Notsa through
train was run on the road. Trains
were stalled at every main station
along the road after I a. M
The first train to pull into the city
came in from Pearl City at a. m
Train No. 1. with Engineer Petrie,
started down the line shortly after I
with a full head of steam on. Just this
side of Moanalua the rain was encount-
cred in torrents. The rain fell in blind
ing sheets and the train was slowed
down. At the big bridge Waikiki of
Moanalua the train was brought to a
full stop. The track was covered with
about eighteen inches of water and the
debris of a rice plantation which had
been washed down by the freshets.
Engineer Petrie could go no further,
as the rising water would have extin-
guished the fires in the engine box.
The bridge was examined and found
intact and it was not feared at the time
that any damage had been done the
track further down the line, as the
water was merely an overflow from the
stream.
/ General Passenger and Ticket Agent
Smith of the railroad estimates that
100 tons of rice straw was damned
against the bridge, forming network
which caught all other floating ma
terials The result was a jam which
caused the waters to back and then to
overflow the surrounding lands and
railroad track.
Later in the forenoon gang of
workmen managed to break the jam
and the water flowed out through the
opening thus made. Not only were
there tons Of rice straw. but cock
reaches by the millions, a mongoose
and several other species of the animal
and insect world common to the dis
trict.
A telephone message from Kahuku
in the forenoon stated that there was
a stretch between Kahuku and Waia-
Iua covered with water and that a
train would attempt to make the pas
sage. BY the time the train reached
the place indicated it was found free
Of water and Waialua was reached
safely
Another report was brought in that
a stretch near Waianae was also COW
cred and partly damaged. The Waia-
lua train. however, had no difficulty
: i'm making the trip. the track being
found in almost perfect condition.
After the line was cleared to Eva the
railroad officials found that their chief
difficulty lay in a stretch of track two
or three hundred yards in length which
had been submerged and partially
lei he no fra r
from Waialua brought in passengers tc
r the washed-out section and the pas.
: sengers were transferred to the Homo.
= lulu end by all kinds of transportation
Z facilities and brought to Honolulu by
}, the train which made the trip down tn,
: road from Honolulu.
r Superintendent Dennison sent larg,
gang of track repairers to Eva Mil
r yesterday afternoon and at once begar
the work of putting the track in condi
ton t. bear the weight of trains TIL,
railroad officials expect to have tn
track ready and in perfectly SAT-
condition by this morning unless an
other severe storm arises to wash ava,
the unfinished repair work.
!. HART & co. HEAVY LOSERS.
Hart & Co. the candy maufactur
ers. suffered severely from the storm
The entire basement in which the can
dy mandatory is located was file,
with water, mud and general debris t
a depth of nearly three feet. The Gel
lar of the Elite building is unfortun
ately below the surface of the prem
ises at the rear and thus formed
;. catch-all into which most of the waite
u
/ fell. Manager Ramsay said the ven
tilator pipes were responsible for tn
great damage. He stated also tina
somewhere in the neighborhood @
$4,000 worth of materials for confec
tionery manufacture were stored ava
or Saturday. having just arrived fror
= New York. Much of the stuff was rest
, ing on the floor and OF course all ma
terial within three feet of the floor wa
irretrievably ruined. They estimat
z their loss at about $1,000.
TRAM STABLES AT KALIHI
The tram car stables at Kalihi wer
flooded early in the forenoon. TIL
water rushed into the premises, whic
are considerably lower than Kin
street or the lane running into thu
thoroughfare from the Kamehameh
schools. The streets just below I'll
stables became so filed that pede:
. trians were unable to cross from or
side TO the other. Several small co
tages near the stables caught the fu
force OF the drainage from the scho
r premises and were evicted in short o.
der by the floods which covered Il
Vi floors.
Of SEWER TRENCHES PITFALLS.
The unfinished sewer trenches {
King street Waikiki of Piikoi BEGAN
\ natural drainage basins for much
y the water that flowed down into Kir
street. They became filed with wat
and thereby deceived many driver
AS the entire street was flooded owe
many drivers who knew nothing abo,
the topography of the street since IL
sewer contractors took hold. dro,
squarely into the trenches At oil
time three horses were seen fiounde
ing there. In one or two cases viii
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