The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-22
TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY IN
DANGER.
Showing That Good Work Was Done at
the Stockyards Fire by the Employees
and Volunteer Helpers.


nolulu Stock Yards Company eighty
five horse in all persisted in yesterdays |
fire.
Seventy eight of these were actually |
burned to death, six shot by the orders |
of veterinary surgeon Shaw, DR.. Water
houses animal being also killed by the |
bullet on account of it's injuries.
The horses that were injured but who
managed to escape were found to be |
either very badly burned or hardly |
touched by the flames. Some of tho |
former are still in a precarious condi- |
ton and in one or two cases it may yet |
be found necessary to shoot them under !
the hard rule that a dumb animal that
is manned or crippled for life, even If II
be not vitality wounded, has outlived its
usefulness.
Some of the names of the private
owners of the dead stock are as follows:
j. F. Morgan, the Occidental Fruit
Store, c. G. Ballentyne, DR.. Mitamoro
the Pacific Vehicle and Supply Com
pany, r. b. McClanahan, Tom Nc
Lain, the Pacific Hardware, the Ha-
waiian Electric Company, L. de l..
Ward, Wing Lung, Loves Bakery, Dr.
Warehouse. F. Lillis, Hugh Rooney,
Thomas Corey, ]. Clark and Pierce.
The horse belonging to c. w. Rice
president of the concern was seen to
escape from the fire but has not yet
been located.
There were about two hundred and
twenty horses altogether in the corrals
and stall of the Honolulu Stock-Yards
Company at the time of the fire, al
| though owing to the loss of certain in
formation the management is unwilling
to state definite number.
| Forty-four of these were boarders,
used in the delivery wagons of local
firms, by hackmen and private indivi-
| duals as carriage horses. OF the total
number destroyed by fire thirty three
belonged to this class of private stock
The carcases of the horses that were
burned and shot were cacrried out to
sea by the orders of the Board of Health
and there dumped before they had be-
come an offense or dangerous to health,
| The government tug was requisition-
ed to haul out the bodies and took then
all beyond the reef. Thirty men were
engaged in transporting the carcasses
to the waterfront.
Fire Chief Thurston is well satisfied
with the work of the fire department
in connection with the fire everything
going smoothly from the time that the
alarm was turned in. Engines Nos.
and 2 started together and arrived first
at the fire using the hydrant at King
and Alapai streets and in front of the
Castle residence on King. The chemical
engine arrived shortly afterward fol
lowed by Engine No. from Makiki
, All four engines directed their efforts
towards subduing the fire and prevent
ing the spread of the flames, Engine No
staying on the ground until half pas
seven in the morning, moving dow
South street to the artesian well OF
Hustace Avenue and utilizing its water
Chief Thurston stated that the DANCE
from live wires was very much les
than at the Hall fire both on accoun
of the greater width of the stree
and the fact that the electri
company acted with greater prompt
tude than on the first occasion. Tn
danger however is considered to be b,
the chief a grave one and necessitate
the instant shutting off of the curren
p Immediately the fire Is discovered.
: ]. A. McCandless of the electric com
: pany stated that the current passin
o THROUGH the wires was not sufficient t
e electrocute a man, much less a hors
: although it might possibly knock dow
Y and stun the former. The current
g stated to be 10 volts.
n The water supply was taken direct
y from the mains the streams from tn
reservoir not being utilized so tina
there will be no resulting shortage
Some light on the origin of the fire ma
be thrown by the fact that a couple Q
Porto Rican Migrants have made tn
hay loft their sleeping quarters for
few nights and might have been sleep
ing there on Tuesday night and starte
the fire with the cigarette that is a
indispensable part of the Porto Rican
waking and sleepy hours.
e w. e. Lee, who has been watchma
J. at the f. o. Hall & Sons premise
). ever since that building burned dowr
u on his way to work on both Friday an
Saturday mornings of last week. no
ticed two Porto Ricans coming quietl
out of the alley leading from the sta
- bles at about $3.50 i'm the morning II
notified Manager Rice at the same tim
4 telling him of the prediction of tn
Porto Ricans for cigarettes at all hours
= Mr.. Rice took the matter up and ha
i the men keep a sharp look out for tn
] two tramps. On Monday morning on
of the twain arrived at the stables ant
asked for a job but was refused. 1t 4
possible that the men continued t,
elude the watchmen and kept the plac
as their sleeping quarters igniting tn
blaze with a cigarette stump dropped
from their lips after falling asleep. II
that case they may have persisted II
the flames. l.. de l.. Ward the treasur
er of the company and Manager Rice
with an extra staff are busy today com,
pleting their inventory of loses. Moth
ing VIII be announced or determined
about rebuilding until after a meeting
of the directors of the company which
may take place next week on the re,
turn of President Rice from Kauai.
The losses Of the big fire at the Stock,
Yards stables early yesterday morning
include about eighty-fiVe horses
all the harness on the premises
and with few exceptions the private
and livery stock of carriages and dray!
kept on the floor. A large amount OF
hay and feed was also destroyed as
We're the tools and implements of the
repair shop and smithy. Two cottages
besides the main building and the new
and as yet unoccuped premises were
consumed.
The insurance amounting in all Ia
$4,000 was placed with the following
companies: German American Insur-
ance Company, $6500; Royal Insurance
Company. $4,000; Union Assurance So
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