The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-22
BIC FIRE OF SATURDAY
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ION .44LE4 rum d-E -f'
tugs on the mauka side Of the street
were soon smoking from the heat.
many times catching fire, only 20 be
queuched by the yigilanL citizens. H.
ualIy a line of hose was brought into
the street through a lane and then came
a long wait for the water. The hose
crew stood directly in the middle OF the
street directing the stream first upon
the burning structures on one Size ana
then upon the apparently doomed
buildings on the other.
Finally the heat became 50 great the
men were forced to beat a retreat 20
the mauka side Of the street and direct
their efforts upon the seething' roar
ing mass upon the corner. which rapid
IN spread up the street. Here the neat
became so intense and blisterlns thdt
the skin almost peeled of their hands
and faces and their clothing began 70
smoke. Buckets Of water were brought
and the men were wet from head 70
foot repeatedly by the volunteers.
Not once did the men of this crew
vince or attempt 20 leave the post 70
which they had been assigned. They
were gritty men; and their heroic Work
10 save the rest of the town was .ouIIE
applauded by the citizens watching the
fight for supremacy.
To these men is due the saving OF
the residence portion Of the city I'M
mediatelv above Kukui street. Ihey
worked heroically and accomplishing
" i'm the fierce heat which drove the
citizens far out of It's blistering range.
This crew was composed Of Albert
Smith. AiiOla. s. Stanford, a. +. NC
Donald and Tom McGiffen. When at
last a wall fell in. shout or reilel
went up from the big crowd consre-
gated to watch the unequal battle, Tor
with its fall all chance of the flames
leaning across the street was over.
Farther along toward Nuuanu street
and between Kukui street and the
burnt church stood a large warehouse
filed with kerosene oil, fireworks and
all kinds of in1ammable material
This building was given a wide berth
BY everybody. and the groups or
mournful residents who were waiting
along the road for whatever DISPOSE
ton the Board intended to make OF
them. we're moved farther along to-
ward Nuuanu TO a place of safety.
No sooner had the flames reached the
inside of the building, than a terrific
explosion lifted a portion OF the roof
high into the air and a roaring mass
Of flames shot skyward. The kerosene
had been reached. Explosion after ex-
plosion occurred, scattering the build
ings i'm sections. and distributing the
fire to other quarters. Explosions
we're heard from this building for a
space of half an hour, until the build
/ ing had completely collapsed. The
neighboring native cottages were fired
| in this scattered fire, but before reach
| ing Kukui street, its progress was eff
| fectually stopped.
| 1t was a GOdsend to the balance OF
/ the city up Nuuanu street that the up
per portion Of Block 10 was so little
built M along the corner of Nuuanu
and Kukui. Had it been otherwise, the
/ fire would undoubtedly have escaped
/ the control of the fire-workers and
sped on its way TO the heart of the res
/ idence district of Nuuanu. As 1t was,
/ there were but a few native houses de-
stroyed along Kukui street, and these
having been pulled down by the hard
working citizens, the danger was great
\ " lpsSpned