The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-19
.M'BRYDE'S LOSS
IS ABOUT $4,000
A Flood Damages Pump in
Hanapepe Valley To That
Extent.

An accident happened last. Wednesday
ley, where Risdon pump with a daily ca
pacity of ten million gallons has been re-
Gently installed. A flood came down at
evening spreading at this point across the
entire valley.
| The pump was in a water tight con-
crete chamber located in level held re-
Gently in rice and well away from the
river, the four walls of which ran up from
the foundations which are at sea level, to
a height of four feet above the surface
| of the ground.
This extra four feet was added to pro-
tect against floods. 1t proved high
enough, but a portion of the makai wa
gave way and fell into the chamber, evil
IDENTIFY yielding to the pressure ana tne
| undermining of the water in the eartf
outside of the wall which had not YET
packed itself.
| The yielding of the wall brought down
that end of the roof with it, the sand
earth and water from outside also follow
ing the wall into the chamber.
This chamber is seventy feet long ans
fifty feet wide and stands at right angles
to the river, the wall in question being one
of the side walls. A three-cornered piece
of this wall, covering evidently the entire
height of the wall at the corner nearest
| the river and running diagonally w
across to the top of the wall within ter
| feet of the opposite corner, was what
gave way. 1t fell on part of the pump
and one, one of the fy-wheels. Just how
much damage has been done to the ma
chinery cannot definitely be determined
for several days.
| Theisdfiy- was located in the
| corner where the wall evidently gave
way; ftspentire height Is broken and one
- os-- 49, 49, - sid IL
nearest to the falling wall has been twist
ed of.
The pump itself consists Of three dis
tinct pumps connected and worked to-
gether and standing side by side the
length of the chamber. They. can be de
tached and run separately or two can be
run together and the third detached.
If any of the pumps have received sub
stantial injury it is the pump nearest the
] falling wall, but it is not thought tina
even this pump is much injured.
| Fortunately the pump was not running
and therefore no internal injury from ex
plosion is to be expected.
| Four men were in the chamber at the
time of the accident but all got out with
out injury, not happening to be in tn
part of the chamber where the wall fell.
The stump from which the pump draws
its water is shut off from the pump itsel
by concrete wall and no water from
that source or from the wells connected
with 1t can get into the pump chamber
There will therefore be no difficulty II
keeping water out of the pump chambe
while repairs are going on. Mr.. Schnei
der, representing the Risdon Iron Works
has already left for Kauai and will SCI
that the necessary repairs on the puml
are pushed.
The McBryde plantation has been usin,
its pumps but very little the past tw
no mountain
stored In reservoirs doing the work. A
the reservoirs are now all full, no injur.
to the growing crop is anticipated befor
one or more pumps at the Risdon can b.
started. The pump at station no. I II
the same valley, which is no longer re
quired for the crop about to be harvested
reaches much Of the young cane.
The damage done is estimated at III
outside to be $4,000. In all probability i
will be much less. sttrf,