The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-18

gasoline schooner Surprise. Captain
Nystrom, arrived from Kauai ports
about noon. She will sail again for
Kauai ports tomorrow afternoon at :
Io'clock.
May Vessels Outside.
| vessels which arrived yesterday from
! the Coast report that there are half a
dozen vessels from the Coast at sea
within two hundred miles of Honolulu.
winch are bound for Honolulu and
which have been endeavoring to make
| TINS port Tor the last ten days, but so
far nave BEEN unable to succeed.
None of them were spoken by the
barks which got into port yesterday
from San Francisco and Tacoma.
Those vessels about due here from the
Coast are the bark st. Katherine, the
bark 5. c. Allen, the schooner Rosa
mond, the schooner Martha Nelson and
the bark Mauna Ala from San Fran
cisco; the bark Agate from Tacoma: the
schooner Q. NJ. Kellogg from Eureka;
the bark Highland Light from Seattle
land the schooner W. F. Witzemann
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isoutheasterly storm and succeeding
| light and battling winds are responsible
for the difficulty which so many vessels
from the Coast are having in making
anything like good time.
The Hanalei is Loading.
The Hanalei, the new steamer recent
ly built for the Inter-Island Steam
Navigation Company is now loading at
San Francisco for these Islands. She
will come first to Honolulu and will
engage in the inter- Island trade imme-
diately- She is a vessel of 502 tons
register and. is said to be one of the
finest small steamships ever built on
the Coast. Captain Greene will bring
her to this port.
Zealandia VIII Come Again.
1t has been decided that the Oceanic
steamship Zealandia is to make at least
one more trip to this port before TAX
ing any other run or before she is laid
up for repairs and alterations.
1t is reported that as soon as she
can be made ready for the trip she will
sail for San Pedro to take on some 800
or 400 Porto Ricans who have been
brought across the States under con-
! tract to work on the sugar plantations
in these Islar<3
Awful Accident on Ventura.
Five men met horrible death on the
steamer Ventura during the voyage
| from Philadelphia to San Francisco
At 6:15 o'clock on the evening of Janu-
! airy 23d, while the steamer was about
700 miles north of Valparaiso, in Iati-
tude 80 deg. SO min. south, longitude
| 81 deg. AZ min. west, terrific roar
startled everybody on board and i'm
nediately afterward steam issued in
dense volumes from the engine room
AS quickly as was possible Chief Hay
mes and others made their way below.
where they found the bodies of five men
who had been killed by the bursting of
the main steam pipe of the port boil
iers. The victims were: George w
Robb, junior engineer, aged &c. a resi-
dent of Charleston, S. c.; William Far
rem, fireman, aged 80. a native of Ire
land; j. Desmond, fireman, aged &c;
Paul Beier, a coal passer, aged 26, a
native of Germany, and Felix Glass
aged 19, stowaway from Philadelphia.
who was employed as a coal passer.
NO cries were heard immediately fol-
lowing the explosion and Judging from
the appearance of the five unfortunates
all of them were almost instantly killed
by the heat and force of the steam.
The bodies presented a horrible sight.
with becoming ceremony directed by
Captain Hayward the five bodies were
buried at sea the day after the acct
dent. -Four other men were badly
scalded at the time the steam pine
burst, but have since recovered and are
now at work on the vessel They were
+. Mcconnell, A. Peterson, j. Graughan
and j. Kelly.
Up TO the time of the accident the
Ventura was making good time toward
San Francisco and under ordinary cir
cumstances would have surpassed the
record OF the Sonoma, a sister ship. on
the trip from Philadelphia. However.
the bursting of the steam pipe rendered
useless the four port boilers and only
the steamboard boilers were thereafter
used. The Ventura arrived on the
Coast only fourteen hours behind the
Sonoma's time The trip was made in
SO days, % hours and so minutes. Some
rough weather was experienced, par
ticularly at the beginning of the voy-
age. When two days out from Phila-
delphia a gale swept the seas entirely
over the steamer. carrying away part
of the starboard railing. breaking the
gangway and staving in one of the
boats. Captain Hayward reports the
Ventura to be fine sea vessel, the vio-
lent weather having afforded a very
fair test of her qualities. The Ventura
is in appearance exactly like the steam
ers Sierra and Sonoma and is the third
and last of the Oceanic companys new
steamers.
More Transports Coming.
The transport ingalls,, which has
been in the local service on the coast
of Cuba but is now at New York. is to
be refitted for service in the Pacific and
will be ready in three months. The
transports Sedgwick and Crook, also at
New York, are likewise to be refitted
and sent to the Pacific. 1t is estimated
that it will cost 500, 900 to place the
Sedrwick in good condition and even
larger sum will be required to make the
Crook serviceabie.
It is expected that by next summer
all the bodies OF. officers and men of
the army which have been buried in
the PhiliDnipaS will l,axa raap +olar, m