The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-09
"A NARROW
+ ESCAPE.
Driver and Horse
Plunge Into
| Harbor.
MANUEL PHILLIPS
HAS LEG INJURED
A Neglect of Precautions Brings
Death Nigh to a Hack

"A dent occurred last night on the
~ waterfront, whereby a hack and
a horse and hackman were pre-
cipitated into the water. The hack and
the driver were rescued: the horse
afterwards was tangled up in a derelici
street scraper and nearly lost his life
while he was being rescued from the
water second time, and the driver,
while attempting to save his horse, had
his leg broken.
| A little before 9 o'clock Manuel Phil
| lips started to drive hack "a from the
Navy wharf to the main gate of the
Pacific Mail wharf. In doing so he had
to pass over structure which is sup
posed to be a roadway connecting the
Navy wharf with the shore at the end
of the Esp1anade. AT the Esplanade
end of the roadway there is a gate
through which Phillips intended to
pass. There was absolutely no light
There at the time; the nearest electric
flight was, as usual out of order and
Twas not working. The consequence
Twas that Phillips was unable to do
more than guess where he was going
and horse and hack and driver all went
plunging off a portion of the roadway,
which looks as if it had been built
to encourage such accidents, into the
water.
| The horse fell on his side and broke
the shafts of the hack. The front
wheels and shafts of the hack were un-
der water with the horse, while the
rear wheels of the rig did their best 20
cling onto the wharf. Phillips was
hurled off his seat and into the shat
low water on the mauka side of the
Pacific Mail wharf.
+ His cries quickly brought assistance
from those around. The big Waterman
for Wilder's wharves, men from the
steamship China, customs inspectors
and stevedores and others fastened to
render their aid. Men got down into
the water and separated the hack and
the horse. The hack was dragged up
onto the shore and someone started 20
lead the horse up out of the water.
Then it was. that an ancient eye-sore
and general nuisance in the shape OF
some abandoned street scrapers proved
themselves a menace to life and limb
and an illustration of someone's care
lessness. The horse, when being led
up by the bank, had to pass close to
one of the rotting street scrapers. He
became frightened at the sight and,
rearing, plunged his foreleg into the
machine. In attempting to free him
self he rolled back down the bank into
the water, taking the machine with
him. There the poor beast lay for over
two hours with the machine half on
top of him and his leg caught in he
mechanism so that he could not extri-
cate 1t.
A lantern was brought and picks ard
n SladOa a
to use. An electrician from the steam
the Government electric light so that
The public could use 1t, and others help
ed all they could to extricate the groan-
irg animal from his painful position.
Phillips, in attempting to urge his
horse to struggle and free himself. got
severely kicked in the right leg anG
was sent home in hack, complaining
that his leg was broken.
AT length a wideawake customs in
spector telephoned the police and Lieu.
tenant Leslie and Patrolman Smith
galloped to the scene and took charge
of the work of rescue. One or two hard
workers were engaged in smashing thu
street scraper when the officers arrived
and were stripped and shivering in the
water.
AT last the machine was demolished
and much to the surprise of al, the
horse, after a little preliminary fuss.
got on his feet and sprang ashore. His
head had been kept out of the water all
the time by means Of rope. The horse
had not broken his leg. as was at first
suspected. He was taken to the police
station and looked after
This is not the first time that acci-
dents have occurred at this place ow-
ing to the peculiarly dangerous con-
lstruction of the roadway connecting the
Navy wharf with the Esplanade.