The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-11-26
MAUI AND
THE K0NA
Extent of Damage Done
By the Storm.
Loss IS CONSIDERABLE
lao Valley Suffers GreatIy--Roads are
Washed 0ut--What the
News Says.

wAILUKU, Maui, Nov 24.-The
News says: At the time of going to
press last Saturday morning very little
was known of the actual damage done
by the Kona storm and it was Tues
day before full reports reached Wal
luku.
A 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
age was greater than was then stated
From the first crossing up nearly to
the second the river overfiowed 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. .aalso
washed out, so that it is now d guilt
to go up the valley on horseback en.
Above the second crossing the piS las
also washed out and crushed by bould-
ers. Practically, the pipe 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
overfiowed the banks of the stream and
cut 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
its old bed at a bend in the stream, on
the Waihee side, and cut a 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
ing out the fumes and finally filling
it up with gravel.
Just above the bridge across the
river on Market street the water
sought a 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
following on the heels of the present
one would permanently change the
course 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
had but one anchor and two bowlines
made fast to the buoy and was barely
able to hold
| Between rs and 100 grown trees were
blown down in the town, fortunately
doing no further damage. 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, 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 were 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