The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-21
ONE MAN
MISSING
Search for Body of
Chinese in
Ruins.
HAST SEEN ALIVE
BEFORE BIG FIRE
Former Employe of Metropolitan
Meat Market Disappeared Az
ter 2 A. M. Monday.


Search Is beginning among the ruins
OF Monday mornings fire for the re-
covery of the body of Chinese who
was seen to enter the room of a friend
at 2 o'clock that morning and who has
not been seen or heard of since. The
man was an employe of the Metropolis
tan Meat Market up to a month ago at
which time he was. taken i'll. He was.
laid off for a couple of weeks when he
appeared at the market asking for
work again, but the job had been given
to another. He was around the mar
ket about a week ago when the night
Chinese engineer talked with him. At
that time the man was still quite sick.
Yesterday it was learned that the
man had not been seen since o'clock
on the morning of the confiagration
and his friends at once reported the
were given to search the ruins for the
remains, but up to late hour in the
aA$ernoon nothing was found there.
When the debris is cleared away later
on close watch will be kept.
The fire inquest jury continued its in
Chief Thurston being recalled. and tes-
timony was also given by Andrew
Brown of the water works department.
z. C. Winston, owner of the block in
which the fire started, Wong Yee and
other Chinese who occupied store
~, ;ot, SC ha-
lieved the blaze originated.
Wong Yee said he was awakened by
cries from the street which the later
ascertained were uttered by All Sui,
the butcher, and he rushed out by the
back door. Flames were rising all
whether a cat was in his room at the
time but there was big gray cat be-
longing to a storekeeper on River street
which had a habit of visiting around
other stores and was occasionally lock-
ed up over night. The cat may have
been in his place that morning but of
this he was not certain. He had taken
out thousand dollar insurance policy
three months before on about $1,000
worth of goods and store fixtures.
Fire Chief Thurston said when the
two central station engines arrived at
the fire there was not enough water for
them to pump and, in his Judgment, it
.a<As fully fifteen minutes before a
ASed supply was turned down into
the mains. He thought that If there
had been full head of water when the
engines began pumping the fire would
not have spread over so large an area.
The lack of a full head of water ham
dicapped him in closing in on the hre
and holding 1t to the block in which
it started.
Watermaster Andrew Brown said
that it was the custom at the Bereta-
MIA humping station to shut down the
pump at midnight, leaving fireman
there the rest of the night, whose duty
II was. in case of a fire to rake down
the fire. call for the engineer and I
switch the valves so that all the water
would run into the mains nearest the
ocation of the fire. This ne believed
vas done witnIn twenty minutes after
PRESSURE was always at the head from
until morning on ordinary oc-
,asions. The Punchbowl reservoir is
full before the pump is shut '
lown. However. through stealing of T
water about 100000 gallons of water O
ret away from it during the night.
E. c. Winston. who lives opposite the t
2spot, was aroused By cries of fire and f
vas almost to the scene when the @
alarm was sent in. The fire gained Il
errific headway and he could only t
udge that it originated in the third ,
tore on River street from the corner :
4 Hotel street, put he could not tell
low it started.
An adjournment was taken until 2A
clock this afternoon. "a