The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-21
HORSES PERISH FLAMES.
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covered from. the ruin this morning and |
the books and papers found to be in |
tact after the door had been forced.
A continuous stream of visitors sur
rounded the ruins today which present.
ed a pitiable appearance. Every trace
of the main building is reduced to ashes |
while at the rear where the stalls were
is the pitiable spectacle Of four rows
of the charred remains Of horses. the
calcined bones protruding from the
twisted limbs and roasted flesh. One
fine animal lies apart from the rest, the
body uninjured save for the scorching
of his name and tail and the total sing
ing of the hide. Almost free, the poor
brute was probably overcome by the
heat and smoke and fell a victim to
the wholesale barbecue of living flesh.
Two well known race horse Nettie II
and Mesquite were rescued from the
flames as were several private horses.
Ballentyne of the Rapid Transit Com
pany lost his horse and rig as did L. de
L. Ward and G. A. Rice of the stables.
The Pacific Hardware lost two de-
livery wagons and possibly their horses.
The Bergstrom Music Company were
the losers of a new plano wagon and
j. w. Bergstrom's private rig. Many
more than a hundred horses altogether
represents q conservative estimate of
the loss of horse flesh aside from the
valuable buggies and carriages public,
and private. Loves Bakery and J.
Morgan were among the losers.
PRIVATE LOSSES.
The fire proves especially unfortu-
nate to many of the hackmen the loss
in many Instances amounting to their
whole capital and stock in trade.
A hackman named Pierce bought and
paid for a hack and horse the day be-
| fore yesterday only to see his earnings
| COUP In flames. Tom Carey .;ell known
about town and who has a family of
thirteen to support on his earnings lost
his all in the fire. The Union Street
stanu is minus several hacks this morn
ing as are several other unfortunate
individual owners of licenses who have
part or fully paid for their horses and
vehicles
Pedro a we'll known horse about town,
once the property of DR.. High and re-
moved by his present owner to a
neighboring stable last week, was the
cause of the fracas with the Chinese
help in the stable some time ago and
may have been in roudabout way the
cause of the fire as suspicion is freely
thrown upon the disgruntled employees
who were discharged for ill-treating the
horse.
The firm of NcCabe, Hamilton and
Kenny lost a valuable team. Captain
Kenny also lost his private horse and
rig. Lewis Bros. were fortunate in get
ting both their horses out from the
fire, finding them down at Levers and
Cookies lumber yard at Kewalo where
quite a number of the escaping horses
congregated after the fire. They were
not so fortunate with the wagons how.
ever losing two delivery wagons but
saving two drays.
Several of the horses that escaped af-
ter being severely burnt were put out
of their misery this morning by being
shot. A number of the animals that es-
| capped from the corral have been locat
ed although there are a number YET
unaccounted for.
After the fire of last Friday extra
watehmen were placed on the premise:
by the management and several meT
were working right beneath the hay
from which the fire is supposed to have
spread No one was seen entering Of
leaving the hay loft although Sylvia tn
night foreman states that upon occa
sions hackmen both native and whit,
have gone up to throw hay down to tn
horses.
Later news confirms the great loss
suffered by the hackmen Individually
some of them owning four horses an(
their rig. 1t comes particularly hare
r upon them as the hacks represented
: their entire means of livelihood.
: The Pacific Vehicle Company suffer
ed the loss of a sorrel horse, saving
their delivery wagon while Mr.. Cuttinl
: of that firm lost his bay PAGER anC
private buggy. J. Morgan, besides hi
horse, lost three rigs in the fire. Pri
] vate owners are still hoping agains
hope that their horses have escaped AM
are telephoning and securing the sub
urbs in an endeavor to locate them. !
number, more or less badly burned
were seen going along Vineyard stree
and several others have been located a
DIR. Shaw's place. In the Territorial
Stables is a fine horse with the fesl
literally stripped off in places but no
so badly that recovery may not be hop
ed for.
The dead bodies of the horses are be
. Ing hauled away this after noon to tn
fertilizer works on trucks before tn
sun makes them a menace to public
, health.
Several weeks ago about a uozen Chi
nese workers about the stable stopped
work. A Portuguese foreman had beef
placed over them in the position for
merly held by a Chinese. This chang
did not satisfy the Chinese and the!
protested. They demanded that they b.
bossed by Chinese. This request wa
/ refused Whereupon the crowd walked
out. Two of them returned to worl
however. So far as the stable peopl,
can recall no threats of revenge wer
made by the strikers and no suspicial
has thus far been directed to the crowd
The property owned by the Honolulu
Stock Yards Company at the makai
Waikiki corner of King and Souti
streets was destroyed by fire at al
early hour this morning.
Almost Immediately after the regular
round made by the night Waterman al
half past one, the fire broke out in a
number of bales of hay that were stow.
ed in the box stalls at the rear of the
building. The dry hay blazed rapidly
and in very few minutes the flames
had caught the wood work of the struc,
ture and were sweeping through the
main building with a roar. Within q
very few minutes after the first sparI
must have been kindled the glow of the
burning building had awakened the
sleepers in the vicinity of the stables
a little crowd of whom had gathered
before the fire engines appeared on the