The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-08-23

IL o'clock this morning destroyed
the Stockyards stables with
their contents, the block of
buildings under construction on the
King street front, and a number of
horses and carriages, both in the sta
bles proper and in the paddocks at the
rear of the building. The loss it is said
will reach $4,000.
The fire broke out in the box stalls
in the rear of the ground floor while
there were some half-dozen men in
the building. These were the night
watchmen and one or two men who
had come for their wagons to begin
their mornings work of the delivery
of bread. The first they knew of the fire
was when the flames started 10 break
out from a number of bales of hay
which were stored in the boxes. The
dry hay burned with n rush and there
was little time for the saving of horses
or carriages. A few of the animals
which had been brought down ready
to be put into the wagons, got out, but
much of the stock was destroyed
As soon as the fire had been detected
there was an alarm turned in by Il
passing policeman and the engines re-
sponded with rush. But before SIN
gle stream had been turned on the
burning building the entire front was
a mass of flames and the adjoining
buildings were smoking The greatest
danger from the first was the Langdon
Hotel above the Wright carriag"
works, which had begun to smoke and
n ;.ta hot ,h N,inH shifted and
ried the flames through the new build
ings. with a roar. These We're only
frames and without windows and there
was no obstacle to the fire, when
spread to the end of the block with ra-
pidity
AS soon as the fir. was seen the Jap
anese and Chinese who live in the
block Waikiki of the Stockyards build
ings began to carry out their belong
ings and the lower end of Alapai street
was filed with trunks and bundles
Volunteers went to the rear of the sta
bles, where the long sheds contained
about $50 horses, and endcavored t'
break down the heavy fences to re-
lease the animalss which We're scream
ing with pain, the heat being sufficient
burn.
Some horsenen put the number %
livery and boarding horses in the sta
bles as high as 2uy, There wer" NJ
race horses in the building and th'
night manager says the most valuable
team was saved. Manager Rice coulo
not be found while the fire was in prog
ress, Deputy sheriff chliingwortf
made an effort To locate him but failed
A number of people were directed by
policemen to the rear of the bulldini
to free large number Of horses con
fined in open paddocks. The majority
of these were let loose and they ran
up King street. The last of these to
be freed We're in "A paddock which was
burning on three sides. The unfortu-
nate animals huddled together on tht
clear side but before the fences ah0
gates could be broken down their flesh
was peeling off their sides and legs
Several horses We're caught near th'
main building and some were said by
the police to have been electrocutcd pN
wires of the Electric Light Company
The telephone company cut the King
street division of wires so that commu-
nicatlon. Waikikiwards was impossible
The cable was not injured To any eX-
tent.
The Triangle store caught fire sew
eral times but was saved from the fire
w. :. Withers, the president, is now
in the East. Charles Rice, the mana
ger, succeeded r, h. Richards short
time since. Itis said that William Rice
of Kauai is one of the heavy stockhold-
ers. The Porter Furniture Company
which was to have moved into the new
building shortly, lost nothing, as the
recent receipt of furniture on the bark
Diamond Head had not yet been stored
there
There We're several persons who
moved from the houses on the maukl
side of the street. one was SIGN
person who was carried over TO th'
Kawaiahao Seminary, when there was
fear of the fire spreading. One woman
spectator tainted and had to be carried
away.
Last Friday there was a small blaz'
in the new portion of the Stock Yards
structure. II is now supposed to have
resulted from spontaneous combustion
but at the time there was some tall
of disgruntled employe, and prob
ability of incendiarism.
The loss by fire is divided thus: OF
old building and sheds, $4,000; on con
tents, including horses and carriages
$4,000; on new buildings, $4,000. Thes'
had not been taken over by the stool
Yards Company, and 1t is said that tn
loss will fall upon Contractor Smith
The loss is said 10 be only partially
covered by insurance.
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