The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-20
KONA HITS
MAUI HARD.
Wind and Rain Do Gre. t
Damage to Island.
KAHULU| is UNDER WATER
Near Camp Three Is a Deposit Of
Mud Twelve Feet
Deep.
Especial Correspondence

tSpeclai COrreSpOnQence.)
wAILUKU. Maui, Nov 1.-THE Kona
storm struck Maui with great force on
"Wednesday. and has continued with vary
ling force until the present moment Ka-
maainas state that it has been the great
est wind and rainstorm combined since
1880
There have been violent southern gales
and heavy rainfalls but no combination of
the two equal to the present Kona for fif-
teen or. twenty years past
The wind began at IL p. m. on the 18th
and blew gale till noon of the 18th.
Downpours of rain came at intervals,
sw eeping through exposed house-walls as
though they were made Of paper. During
that night 3.46 inches of rain fell at Halea-
kala ranch and at least seven or eight
inches further makai. at the elevation of
Paia Or Spreckelsville.
During the afternoon of the 18th the
wind blew moderately until dark, when
the wildness of the previous night was re-
pcated. The rainfall of the night, as ia
ken at Paia plantation on the morning of
the 18th, showed record of 91a inches
and the gauge was OVERCOMING During
the storm from the evening of the 14th
Haleakala ranch was GA inches, and at
Paia plantation Manager Lindsay esti-
mates from seventeen to eighteen inches.
Kahului is all afioat. Nothing but wa
ter. with the houses forming tiny islands
here and there, can be seen. The little
town is certainly most unfortunate-first
to be destroyed by fire during plague
times and now to be soaked with water.
From distance one might imagine that
the Galveston episode had been repeated.
but on closer inspection it is seen that
all the buildings are intact The damage
TO goods and property from water will be
considerable.
No trains between Kahului and Paia
have been run by the Kahului Railroad
Company for several days past. 1t has
been impossible, for the tracks are flood
. ed from Kahului through Spreckelsville
to the large H. C. Co.'S pump. which is
, situated very near the Paia boundary
line
On the Kahului- Makawao Government
road in large hollow just above the
J Spreckelsville Camp No. 8, the freshet has
washed down such vast quantity Of
mud that the thoroughfare is impossible
NJ A. Tavares, manager of Pukalan
dairy of Makawao, Aates that he ha.
been unable to make his usual daily triI
to Kahului and Waikiki for three day.
past on account of the great deposit o
mud and debris just above Camp g. H
leStiAhdtcS tHdt the Huuu at tniS pace is d
least twelve feet deep, for the fence AM
"a small-sized keawe (algaroba) tree hav
been completely buried.
All communication between Makawa
and Waikiki districts has thus been Gu
off. Last evening at sunset a most beau
tiful view was presented by the rays o
the setting sun shining upon and glisten
ing in the many streams of water whc
were running in all the gulches of Kula
a most unusual spectacle for that dry sec
ttion of the country. During the storm Il
kula about 100 acres of corn and potatoe
were swept downward and destroyed b
the flood. The plains below the Kul
slope are reported to be covered with de
stroyed corn, potatoes and "paninis."
The wind blew with tremendous powe
during the nights of the 14th and 18th
Telephone communication all over tn
Island has been cut off since the morn
ing Of the 18th. Many poles have bee
blown down and trees in falling hay
broken the wire in many places. Severa
hundred trees, eucalyptus, pride of Indi
and other varieties, have been uproote
in Makawao district. The roads an
fields are covered with litter-bark leaves
branches, etc.
A horse belonging to Awana, of Maka
wac, was killed in his pasture by a fall
ing tree. The blow broke the backbon
of the animal During the night of tn
18th, at Kaluanui. tree in falling com
pletely severed the veranda from a cot
tage The inmate, the Chinese cook @
Mrs. F. A. Alexander, was terribl
frightened but otherwise uninjured TIL
story of the storm cannot be fully relate
until the broken wires and uprooted pole
, of the telephone system have been re
\ paired.