The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-14
STORM ON
MAUI.
Hail as Big as the
| End Of Ones
| Thumb.
MORE THAN EIGHT
| INCHES OF RAIN
Kahului Flooded and Carpentel
McClennan Hurt by Fall
ing Root
Especial Correspondence


kona of the season for the past week.
The storm king has been rampant,
seeking to subdue old earth by hurting
upon it terrible northeast blasts, fierce
southern gales, bolts Of electricity.
showers of haslstones and downpours Of
rain.
The storm of last November contin-
ued but four days; the present one be-
gan on Monday and the kona wind is
still blowing briskly today. One of the
prominent characteristics of the pres
ent kona was the presence of large
amount of electricity in the atmosphere
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday. Electrical disturbances OF
short duration take place several times
every rainy season, but display of
electricity continuing for four days, is
an occurrence not recalled by the old !
est inhabitant.
During the morning of Monday the
wind began to blow moderately strong
from the south. In the afternoon 1t
suddenly changed to the northeast
and the "makani kin" so-called by the
natives, began to send forth most ter
BILE blasts rivalling in force the old
time kona wind. Leaves and branches
of trees soon filled the air, many trees
themselves were uprooted, chicken
coops. pig pens shanties and out
buildings of all descriptions were over
turned and rolled over and over. About
5 o. m. two plantation dwelling houses
at Kaluanui were thrown over, expos
ing their inmates to the fury of the
wind. In one of these houses was a
sick Portuguese woman, whoI cried
piteously until rescued by her friends.
The main wall on the makai side OF
| the Makawao court house and Jail was
lblown down and the building complete
lly denuded of clapboards. Old Ha-
. lwaiians say that years ago at keanae
this 'makani kin" blew over every house
in the village on the beach. This Wind
is, so they say, the vanguard, the fore
& runner of a hard kona storm, and the
saying proved true this time. Tuesday
u morning the wind changed to the south
r again and blew with great velocity, fire.
u quently bearing in from the sea beyond
ID Maalaea bay great masses of deep-black
jclouds, which soon spread over central
n Maui, causing downpours of rain, ac-
I companied with repeated flashes OF
\ vivid lightning and the muffled roar OF
u thunder. Wednesday the storm was
less severe. but during the night and
on Thursday it was as fierce as on
v Tuesday.
On Friday came downpour like a
y cloudburst, flooding everything, chang
r ling roads and byways into running
rivers During this heavy rain of sew
eral hours duration a hail storm for g
short time visited the upper part of the
eastern slope of HaleakaIa. Hailstones
of rough ice, the size of the end of one:
thumb, ratified against house walls. al
most cracking the window panes.
The rain continued during Friday
night and this Saturday morning II
pleasant but the south wind has fresh
ened almost to a gale again. 1t is diff
cult to prophesy whether or not thu
end of the greatest kona storm Of thu
season is at hand.
During the kona between eight ant
ten inches of rain have fallen. Kahu
IIui is again flooded and so is the tract
of the Kahului Railroad Company her
and there between Paia and Kahulul
though the trains ran as usual yester
, day.
NJ Maui people did not get their Homo
lulu mail until Thursday night and Fri
Jay morning, Ld0aIIla people Delhi
more fortunate than other Mauiites. N
anxiety was felt concerning the non
arrival Of steamers, as the cause o
q their detention was self-evident.
The Kahului- Makawao road was i'm
passable for vehicles during Thursda
and Friday on account of the wind an
debris accumulated by the freshet a
Camp 3, Spreckelsville.
Telephone lines to Lahaina, to. Kahu
lui, and in fact all over central Mau
have been broken. repeatedly durin
the week by the wind.
ACCIDENT AT KAHULUI
A disastrous and almost fatal acci
= dent occurred at Kahului on Monda
{ afternoon. Mr.. McClennan, the hea
carpenter at Kahului, was mountin
! the stairway to the lookout station t
{ watch the progress of the coming storm
! which was tossing the lumber like pa
per In the lumber yard.
When near the top, the wind blew tn
stairway down Mr.. McClennan fell o
4 the roof of the building underneath an
4 from there dropped to the ground, dis
4 lance of about twelve feet, striking o
y his head and cutting his face and ca
\ badly. He was rendered unconscious b
6 the fall and Superintendent Filler 6
& once ordered special train prepare
D and had him taken to Malulani hosp
q tai, where he was attended by DR.. Wed
"a dick. 1t was Tuesday morning. befor
III he recovered consciousness and 1t wi
be some days before he will be able I
~ be out. IS
8 On Tuesday morning when the chi
dren assembled at the Waikiki scho
the wind was blowing gale.
Soon after school was called the o.
barn which answers as a school built
|, ing began to rock and sway in the win
80 School was at once dismissed and II
children were hustled out of the bull,
ing which momentarily threatened
tumble down over their heads. No fu