The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-03-04
WIRES AND TREES
SUFFER FROM WINDS
Gales Sweep Over the City Leaving
A Wide Trail of Ruined
Foliage.

T. HE nor,her which has been blow
ing for several days past g1t b
s;raighis shoot through thc Pal
and descended upon Honolulu ysster.
nay with a force which turned the at-
tention OF the oldest inhabitani to the
thoughts Of a hurricane. while The
vindgauce at the residence OF PROBES
sor LYONS showed only rate ~ about
forty-fve miles an hour certainly
there were moments yesterday and
during Saturday night when this rate
was well nigh doubled.
The story Of the damage Qf the storm
runs as "A history Of the nights and
DAYS from Luakaha o. WAIKIKI and
kalihi Everywhere there was a gale
which would not be- denied and which
swept away fences. and in many in
stances knocked down trees. The most
remarkable damage was done To the
old church in lower Punchbowl street
which has been deserted FOR some time.
and where the wind, getting free en-
try, carried away the roof and then
blew down the walls
All that prevented great harm was
the gusty nature of the winds. At Lua-
kaha, the roof was blown of one OF the
smaller buildings. but the particular
gust passed, and there was no greater
damage done 10 the buildings Houses
on Pacific Heights and Tantalus rock
ed. but held. As II was, Honolulu was
swept until weak trees and fragile
boughs strew the roadWays, telephone
and electric light service H. interrupt
ed and travel is accompanied by dan
gers from above.
At Waialae there was well nigh a
hurricane a deal Of damage was done
AT the residence Of u. y. X. Isenberg.
one cocoanut tree was blown down.
falling upon one wing OF his house.
and cutting II through. There was no
one there at the time and the loss II
confined 10 the structure and the con-
tents OF the room. In addition there
were several other trees blown down
there being both cOcoanut and alga-
rOba trees among the ones destroyed.
At the Hawaiian Hotel Waikiki an
mex there was "A storm which threaten
ed to sweep away the old cOcoanut
grove. The wind swayed the trees like
pendulums, but only one gave way.
This one was back In the field, and its
falling did no damage. There was one
of the large algaroba trees blown down
rs well, but II did little damage in fall
ing.
Last night visit 10 Kapiolani Park
discovered that there seemed at least
one half OF the trees in the park down
under stress OF weather As the trees
in falling broke others, blocked the
roads and prevented any one from
crossing through the park the ertire
damage was not known The loss In
the trees will not be less than one
third OF the valuable ones in the dis
trict, covering pines, algarObas and
irOnwood trees. Commissioner Wray
Taylor expects 10 find that many Of the
thriving trees Of Nuuanu nursery have
been destroyed, as recently when the
wind was not nearly 50 high as AT pres
ent, there was great damage done. In
the city many rare trees and shrubs
suffered and bananas were whipped 20
ribbons and many destroyed.
The first interruption of traffic which
occurred to the Rapid Transit road
was that OF last evening, about 9:l5
O'Clock. a telephone wire fell across
the trolley wire at point opposite to
the railroad station in King street
Instantly there was a grounding and
cutting of off the current This de-
iayed the car about twenty minutes,
for the current had to be shut off and
the wire removed. The excess Of cur
rent burned out all the telephones on
the line.
The wind reached terrible force at
the peninsula. There were more than a
dozen great trees blown down. The
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