The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-01-12
PLAGUE At UNION SQUARE
WHOLE BLOCK GUARANTEED
BY MILITARY.
District From Alakea Street to Union
Square Declared Infected and Will be
Destroyed by Fire.

The block bounded by King, Alakea
Merchant and Richards streets has
been declared infected and has been
placed in quarantine. Early this after
noon military Gordon was stretched
around. Men with bayonets are placed
ten feet apart all around the block.
Something like 200 people were caught
in the block by the quarantine. Many
were in the Occidental hotel at the cor
ner of King and Alakea. Some were
having their lunch in the restaurant
and came outside to find themselves
shut in by the guards. There was some
loud kicking but it did no good.
Next door to the Occidental is lodg-
ing house in which are the family of
sergeant at Post Honolulu and several
gentlemen. At the Government dis
pensary were a large number of ma
tives and Portuguese awaiting the ar
rival of Dr. Howard in order to get
medicine. All were closed in. Number
1 fire house was taken in by the mill
tary Gordon. 1t happened that the en-
gines were at the fire in Chinatown
and only the watchman was in.
On the Merchant street side the res
idence at the corner of Alakea and
Merchant, occupied by a white family,
was taken in. Above that is j. R. Mills
grocery and still farther along the New
Market restaurant. In the latter were
a number of people, getting lunch, who
are now in quarantine.
| This new quarantine will be a disap-
| pointment to the whole city. It is the
| first time it has been necessary to ex-
tend the limits beyond the original in
fected district. The Board of Health
feels that the plague has escaped from
| Chinatown and has firmly seated itself
| IL, nh To
| In all probability the whole block, in
cluding Number 1 fire house and the
Occidental hotel will be burned.
PLAGUE NOTES.
Keola, native, aged 40, died in house
| below Kaumakapili January II, of
plague. Body cremated at Mauliola.
| Noah Kinapu native, aged 18, found
dead in a house near corner of King
and Kekaulike streets, January IL, of
plague. Body cremated at Mauliola.
Wo Hop, Chinese boy, aged 8, taken
from tailor shop on King near Union
square last night, has plague. Confined
now in pest house at Kakaako.
Another case investigated by the
Board of Health today was that of the
six days old child of Hattie valiant,
116 South street. Inanition was return
ed as the cause of death.
|
victim of the plague came to the con-
clusion that the immediate cause of
death was fright. The victim was a ma
| tive, who had contracted the malady.
At the autopsy it was found that the
! disease had not advanced far enough
to cause death. 1t was in it's first stages
| and very mild in form. The physical
condition of the man was not such as to
warrant a conclusion that plague had
run it's course to a fatal termination.
The physicians decided that terror on
finding himself suspect had led to the
mans early demise.
THE PLAQUES VICTIMS.
The following are the deaths from
plague since the publication of the list
of deaths up to and including January
10.
Jan. 10, Machda, Japanese, male,
aged %, died at pest house, Kakaako,
whittier he was removed from cottage
on Vineyard street near Nuuanu
stream; was an assistant to DR.. Kob-
ayashi; cottage burned January 8.
Jan. IL, All Chow, Chinese, male, aged
As, died at the detention hospital at the
| kerosene warehouse whittier he had
been taken with other occupants of one
of the districts in Chinatown which
was afterwards burned.
Jan. IL, Paule, Hawaiian, male, aged
| 12; found dead in house adjoining the
Eva line of Kaumakapili church prem
| ises.
Jan. IL, Keola, Hawaiian, male, aged
40; died at $3.50 p. m. in house on Bere-
tania street Eva of the Kaumakapili
church premises, the same house IN
which Paule died.
Jan. 12, Kinapu, Hawaiian, male,
aged -; found dead in the morning in
house near the corner of King and
Kekaulike streets below one of the dis
tricts burned some days before.