Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-11-18
HIL0 DELUGED BY DESTRUCTIVE STORM


showers to see what the rain had
done.
Later in the week the worimen
were set to transferring lumber to
the mauka side of Front street. where
vacant lots were available.
Tuesday Mr.. Scott and Sheriff An
drews put a gang of men at work fll.
ing up the crevasse in Hiio's main
thoroughfare. Wide difference of
opinion prevailed on the best mode of
poses the suggestion to make per.
manent outlet for the Waiolama wa.
tiers at this point because the tide
and SUR would cause constant trouble
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MAIN street o'sneSehed.
Waianuenue street looks like 1t had
been Quilted by Rapid Transit Com.
pany. The top dressing has been
skinned of and in places the force OF
the water tore gullies down to the bed
rock flags. The force Of the torrent
ray be realized when 1t Is told that
drifts Of crushed rock In sizes from a
walnut to mans fist encountered the
sidewalks at places where the water
overran the walks into the side lots,
The ravages of the flood along Volcano
| nd 81 fall rhnN Ia .vkx l,px
been denuded of top dressing from
! the city to the Volcano. II Is rougher
than an abandoned turnpike. The
bridge at four.mile was submerged,
but II withstood the flood.
No DAMAGE to ojaa.
At eleven mile. the rainfall is re-
ported at 30 inches in forty.eight
. hours. With this remarkable down.
pour 1t liz said no appreciable dam.
age was done In the cane fields. A
, resident at that point was in the city
Monday. He describes a peculiar phe
nomena, witnessed by himself and
many others. lie said the water
would come down the slopes in sheets
, ms high as three to five inches. This
water would seemingly be swallowed
. up by the earth. II was this phenom
. enal absorbing power OF the volcanic
soil that prevented the food from
accommodating In an enormous wave
+ which would have swept everything
, before II. Back Of the city three OF
four miles the slopes are dotted with
t .I"en. spInss I'on' .he SIZE VI one
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kaumana way.
The bridge on the Kaumana roat
three miles out was wrecked. Tn,
@ testle carrying the S-inch Hilo wate
:. main across the river was WASHED
n away. together with the pipe, maxim.
I the city dependent on water for tn,
{ time being from the lower spring
which Is still connected.
i Rainbow Falls was one of the grand
4 est sights OF the whole storm. TIT
|. Wai'uku river At that point was .Ittl'
= tho uors. Shnn falls an tho Ma. r :,
, tne ,'orse onoe ia'is On ,he Niasara
U Shares hi.chcoch secured me pho
y .osiaph Wheh 'h' waters were hea
their MAXIMUM volume. scores
= i,notes p,a'eu 'he ram 10 "''hes
tue DIG iahs'
hamakua Road.
;. The same reports of damaged road