The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-12

washed out for some dist,lnye, =, a reezs
were blown down In evergt atr5ctinn-
Mr.. Smith returned to town carly M
the afternoon, but went back TO waA
pho for more complete survey Of The
conditions, When he returned NJ sec.
ond time about o'clock, Mr.. Smith
gave an Advertiser reporter some par
ticulars of the havoc the storn e,psea
in Eva district.
II walked over from Waipio 20 mai.
pahu wadng FOR some distance In
water almost waist deep. For about s.
mile between wapio and waipatrs, the
track is two or three feet under WAFER
IF 1t does not rain any more, We win
have the trains running to Eva MN
by tomorrow afternoon. The water il
going down very fast now. r. tho npnd
does not come up again with more
rain, we will he able to throw the track
on to the roadbed In the morning. II
is out of the question to do anything
while the water is pouring over the
track like Niagara.
THE TRACK ELSEWHERE
THE line to Pearl City is all righi.'
Mr. Smith continued. There are proh-
ably n few bridges needing slishS re-
also n few washouts to repair which
will not take much time.
I'VE have the telephone line repaired
as far as Eva Mill and In the morning
will be able to open up the telephone
line right through. The worst OF il II
now done.
yesterday wednesday, afternoon pui
up at Eva Mill yesterday afternoon
1--WE will be transferring passengers
some time tomorrow afternoon, so ihH
they will be able to go through
THE WIND STORM
"There must have been twice Tive
wind in Eva that we had in town.
Mr.. Smith said. Its effects are sect
all the way from Aiea to Waipahr-
NhnS HpuStS VI 'IlliltS' Wttc uiiicpiN'~"
Hundreds of trees We're blown dOEE,
'alling in many places on the telephone
ines. The roof of the little STATEN
1t Waipio was blown clean away.
James Lyle. who was storm-hound ~
he Peninsula, Pearl city. over Wef-
lesday night, says enough trees were
blown down there to make a thousnhd
ords of firewood
A falling tree crashed through the
oof of the dining room of r.. c. Smith
gent of Henry Waterhouse, at the
Fortunately nobody WE
nught by this windfall.
TWO PERSONS INJURED.
The household of n Japanese n mile
own the line from Pearl City was less
ortunate. Both the father ard little
hid were injured. A tree in its deg
ent core through the wall of the house
'nrt of Ii struck the father IN tht
cad causing severe abcasions. one ni
is children had an arm broken by tbs
troke of Il branch. There being nc
octor procurable the little one suffer
d without surgical attention unu
rought to town in the first train, winch
rived about noon yesterday. MI
vile, on the way up, afforded some re-
eff to the youngster by procuring :
arm moistened towel a, CHINESE
ore to keep down the swelling Ia the
ljured arm
rAIEIKI BRIDGE DESTROY ED
The force of water rushing down from
vo valleys yesterday destroyed tn.
e bridge at Waikiki. Early in iht
orning there were signs that the
,idge would go. Small sections of the
,ncrete sea wall and OF the similar
als which supported the ends of the
'idge commenced to crumble away
nderneath We're the cable and water
aims. The water main was the ing
pc which supplies the whole of War
Iii district. The cable main was
nall three inch pipe, containing int
nd section of the cable and running
ON the cable hut at Waikiki TO the
lexander Young building. on one
de of the bridge is n narrower skele-
II bridge which is used exclusively
the Rapid Transit cars. The RAPID
'anst bridge was not destroyed bW
+ a portion of the day it was not
ed, as Manager Ballantyne did moi
ish to run any risk of accident Ia
Sc this bridge had been weakened by
e giving way of the larger structure
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