The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-31


ed from those unnumbered ranks bent
upon the same mission, to be as sue
cessfully overcome by the noble ship
doing battle for herself and for those
she carried.
REMARKABLE LUNAR RAINBOW.
Between and the clouds became
broken and stars sparkling like points
OF brilliant fire cleaned above the
flying spray. Shortly the wild pris-
matte bank of cloud told us that a new
and wonderful feature was soon to be
added to the grand and awful picture.
One of the most brilliant lunar rain
bows l ever saw stood between us and
the surface of the tempestuous ocean.
It's beautiful arc stood twenty or thir-
ty feet above the water, its points
reaching the sea just outside the ship"
During the ten hours between noon
and 10 p. m. the wind veered from
east to north via south Our heaviest
gale was from southwest to west, be-
tween and 8 p. NJ After the barom-
eter had first commenced to rise at 81
O'Clock during the lull in the gale it !
fell 3-100 as the gale commenced
anew, but in a few moments it began
to rise again and rose rapidly while
the wind was blowing with greater
force than / have ever before expert
enced. After 9 p. m. the wind fell fast
and backed from north to west again,
where it remained. At midnight l put
the ships head east on her course
again. The day ended with strong
west wind, high and confused sea, and
fine weather.
DAMAGE ABOARD SHIP.
During the worst of the gale a sea
boarded the ship, striking on the star
board side, smashing No. Z lifeboat,
throwing the steam launch out of her
chocks, carrying away chain lashings,
tearing beds out of the deck and throw
| ing the launch on her beam ends afoul
the side of quartermaster captains
quarters, in which Mrs. Chaffee had
| been lodged since she came on board.
| The launch was quite badly stove; so
was the starboard quarter boat The
| launch and the quarter boat can be
| REPAIRED, but No. lifeboat is past
cure, as she is a metal boat After
noon of the 18th the wind died out and
/ the confused sea became better. Later
| light breeze southeast, beautiful
weather with moonlight sea and hap
py people"
SCENIC AND TRAGIC FEATURES.
| Everyone kept as close to their cab
ms as possible, but the cabins on the
starboard side of the vessel were
flooded, as the pounding of the huge
waves on the panels of the port holes
/ smashed them in. But occasionally a
frightened passenger could not help
but Chamber to the boat deck to take
in the awful beauty of the typhoon.
The moonlit, dark blue sky above con-
trasted strangely with the tumbling,
foaming hills of water that the vessel
was pushing her nose through. The
wind blew at terrific rate. One pas
senger declared that it blew so hard
that he lost half his eyelids. At one
moment the huge transport would be
high in the air on the crest of huge
wave, with the water far beneath her
bow and stern, and at another there
were mountains around the vessel. II
seemed to many at times as if they
\. hwere in a deep volcanic crater, and that
the rim was becoming O. liquid and
floating down upon them.
Long after the typhoon had subsid-
ed the seas were heavy and very rough
put the oIncerS Went TO Work at ones
to have repairs made to the things thai
had been broken up. The cabins were
dried out. The woodwork around Gen
eral Chaffee's quarters was rebuilt
l and reprinted. The broken boats were
repaired, the whole ship was re.
, painted. and as she came slowly int
the port yesterday morning there wa;
but little evidence of the terrible storm
E that she had been through.
ofeers on the bridge of the vesse
during the typhoon had a frightfu
time. The wind was such that it al
: most tore them away from their posts