The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-09-04
THE SEAS ROSE HIGH
AND THREATEN
MALOLO
TWO ENORMOUS WAVES NEARLY
ENGULFED THE vEssEL-RE-
PORTS OF STORMY WEATHER
FROM THE OTHER ISLANDS.

What is believed to have been two
tidal waves was encountered by the
Malolo last Tuesday night while off the
Koolau shore. The waves were met
while the vessel was near Bird Island.
Nothing like them had ever been seen
by the sailors on the vessel. The boat
had a narrow escape from destruction.
Last Tuesday night the schooner Ma
lolu encountered an unusually heavy
sea on the other side of the island. The
vessel was heading northwest between
Bird Island and Koolau. Suddenly the
captain saw two enormous seas come
rushing toward him from the southeast.
They broke clean over the stern OF the
boat, nearly sweeping the man away
from the wheel. Everything was bat
tened down at the time and no damage
was done.
The vessel encountered only two big
seas and sailors on the boat who have
navigated these waters for years, de-
clare that they have never seen any
thing like the two waves before. Just
what causd ethe waves is uncertain.
There was an ugly treacherous sea run
ming at the time but the two waves
We're more in the nature of tidal waves
than anything else. Each of them
must have been twenty-five feet In
height.
It is more than likely that the waves
We're due to some marine volcanic ac-
ton. Volcanic weather" is now pre-
vailing and ii is not unlikely that the
two waves that nearly wrecked the Ma
lolo originated from some upheaval.
The captain says that had the vessel
been broadsides to the waves nothing
could have saved her.
The weather has been unusually
,.Ott oh 4 oil Of fIo ;eIo
terday afternoon the schooner John G.
North arrived in distress from Punaluu
with a tale of narrow escape from be-
ing piled on the reef. Last Saturday, Il
gale sprang up and for a while, threat
ened to drive the vessel ashore. She
was unloading lumber at the time. Her
stern line parted. On the next day
Captain Erickson decided to get out
of the place as his vessel was endanger-
ed every minute. The stern line had
carried away. While trying to heave
the starboard anchor up, the chain cars
{ ried. away. The port anchor had to be
slipped, together with fOrty-fiVe
fathoms of chain. The schooner was
brought around and Captain Erickson
beat out to sea and saved his vessel
He brought about 10000 feet of his
lumber cargo to Honolulu with him
-Four RATS of lumber We're washed a.
ShOre during the gale. 1t is thought
this lumber can be recovered however.
a party of natives was sent from shore
to clear the surf line but their boat was
driven ashore The crew of the North
did not learn whether any of the men
were lost or not. The fore lower mast
head was sprung on the way to Homo
lulu as gales were encountered.
Diver Herbert Young returned Tues
! day from Kilauea, Kauai with the
! schooner The Brothers. The weather
was so bad at Kilauea that he could
not search for the lost cable and in ad-
dition, his vessel narrowly escaped be-
/ ing wrecked. He clung on in Kileauea
until everything was carried away
from his boat and then he put into Ha-
/ nalei and layed there three days for
| shelter.