The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-08
Biz BLAZE
On A BARK
The C. D. Bryant's
Hold a Mass of
Fire.
NINE STREAMS OF
WATER ON CARGO
SPreckeIs' Tug Fearless and Fire
Department Have a Hard
Five Hours Tussle.

Fire was discovered aboard the Amer
lean bark c. D. Bryant, Captain ColIy.
lying on the Waikiki side of the Irm-
gard wharf, at an early hour yesterday
morning. The carpenter, rising from
his bunk shortly after o'clock, saw
smoke coming out of the forward hatch
and, rushing in that direction, saw that
the hatch was open, whereas it had been
battened down the night before. He al
so found a furnace raging in the hold
of the vessel. So intense was the heat
that the carpenter had no sooner pIac-
ed his face over the hatch than he
jumped back, his eyes and flesh smart
ting with the heat.
Chips Immediately ran aft and
aroused the captain, who, slipping on
his clothes in less time than it takes
to tell it, came out on deck and. to-
gether with the carpenter, removed the
main hatch. AS they did so a great
volume of smoke rose from amidships
and lowered away up between the
masts, presenting an ominous spectacle
in the light of the early morning.
The alarm was soon given. The skip
pers of the many ships lying in the vi
einity were on deck in quick time and
ordering preparations to be made to get
their vessels away from the HharVes IN
case any danger threatened them.
A little before $50 o'clock the whis-
tie of the electric light plant gave
tongue. announcing to the waterfront
and the rest of the town that there
was a fire on one of the wharves.
Quickly the fire department respond
| ed. the chemical engine being the hrst
to arrive on the scene. Firemen lost no
| time in getting aboard the vessel whose
valuable cargo was being devoured oy
the flames. The hose of the chemical
engine was thrust down the forward
hatch, where the fire was the fiereest.
But little good was done by the chem1-
icaf apparatus, however; the cargo OF
| the c. D. Bryant consisted largely OF
hay and grain and feed, and the only
way to extinguish the blazing mass was
to drown it. The department mace
haste to get water into the hold by the
use of a suction hose let down from the
wharf into the water of the haroor.
Scarcely had this been accomplished
than the powerful tug Fearless came
stearning up and got alongside OF the
burning bark without loss OF time.
Although Captain Gilbert Brokaw was
not aboard the Fearless when the nre
whistles blew, he got to his post in re-
Imarkably short time and soon had the
| tug at the scene of action. When the
Fearless reached the Bryant she was
~
her hold. and they We're powerful
streams, too.
Great clouds of smoke were belchlng
forth from all the matches of the bark
! by this time.
"Haye you got another hose?' cried
the captain to the master of the Fear
less. LET us have it quick"
Here it is. all ready" answered Bro
raw and in a moment three streams
from the Fearless We're doing their pest
10 drown the blaze below.
"Can YOU let US have another
| s+raan p, again came the cry from
aboard the Bryant.
AN ready with another stream" re-
p1ied Brokaw, and now four powerful i
streams were being pumped by the tug
aboard the bark
The heat from the matches was IN
+arse. NO one dared to try to enter
tho hold to see where the heart OF the
&C. was At last Captain Colly Of the
prvan+ and Captain Brokaw OF the
I-o.-Iaes made up their minds thal
leor,a ono had 10 go below and that they
voie-b+ az well attempt it themselves.
w. +ried it: it was impossible Tor
49,, N pet down the matches. Inc
80, beat drove them back; the
x.,-,.o- .1n,os+ suffocated them before
-, 1rare we'll down the ladder which
iba5 baen rugged for the purpose heS
l1ara con1peIled to wait for a more "a
torahle opportunity. Shorty aItel a. -
li+ came. Four streams had oesh PFC
Iirg onto the fire from the fediles9 ca.
tho fire engines on the lrmgaro "a
also had four streams Worhilis- -
these eight streams had oeen ui.r,ii-7
for some time. Captains Coiy anu
lkaw again made the attempt 70
low. This time they aecompilsiieu -
lobiect. although they were hia"e
lceedingly uncomfortable oy - +Le
and fumes. They discovered that .he
lire was covering large area - 1900
lcorqo and that the deck OF the EesSe
a1, IS the bulwarks were BABY
soorota5 They also saw that the no!o
80 o,,icl,1v filing with water All tniS
49,, ,,,ara compelled to ascertain IN
b~iaf time for it was impossloie .oi
49,, RI stav below more than mn
They found out enough ho !"
: go a Direct the streams OF water IN
: I+alI;eentlv and then came up on r..
AGAIN drenched to the skin ana MAJ
! suffocated. iva another
strsanq" asked the captain OF the Dry