The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-10-24
THE ERNEST REYER
IS ASHORE
Continued from page one).

| JllhL Sne nau gone ashore at 2.3O a. m.
ship time. Admiral Beckley hurried
away to the nearest telephone to notify
people i'm the city that a vessel was in
distress and needed assistance.
But before anybody could get out to
the boat from the harbor the steamer
Mauna Loa came along from her run
to Hawaii and Maui ports. Captain
| Simerson saw the French vessel and
stood by to render assistance. Mate
! w. Mitchell was sent i'm a boat from
the steamer to the ship to inquire if any
assistance was desired. The French
! captain was taking matters Coolly
| enough and said that he would like to
| have a line passed from the steamer.
! He tried to make a bargain with Nit
chell but the mate said that he had no
| authority to discuss that matter as
! Captain Simerson would settle that de-
tail. A line was passed from the
Mauna Loa to the French vessel at 5:45
a. m. The steamer did not try to pull
the vessel off but simply held her in
position. The hawser was only a six
inch Manila and was not strong enough
to do any hauling. There was no swell
running and the ship was not moving
particle. In the meanwhile the tug
Fearless arrived and stood by mas
much as Captain Simerson of the Maui
ma Loa had a line on the sailing vessel.
Captain Olsen of the tug did not at
tempt to cut in. Olsen went aboard
the French vessel however to talk with
the master. At $50 o'clock the Mauna
Loa started to pull but within a short
time the line parted. Captain Simerson
had no other hawser that would have
served and as he had passengers and
mail aboard the steamer to be landed
and the French ship was in no imme-
date danger, he decided to resume his
voyage to Honolulu. The Fearless inn
mediately put a line on to the French
vessel in an effort to get her off.
other steamers went to the assistance
of the ship. The steamers Likelike, w.
c. Hall, Lehua and ]. A. Cummins were
early on the scene and later this morn
ing the steamer Niihau went out to
stand by.
The Ernest Reyer was 81 days from
, Newcastle and has cargo of coal con-
signed to Hind, Rolph e Company, she
is owned by the same company that
operates the French bark Charles Gou-
nod the craft that arrived here sunday
from Newcastle in 3S days.
At least two people ashore saw the
, French ship Ernest Reyer when She
hit the island of Oahu this morning.
Diamond Head Charlie" Peterson was
one and \. r. Gurrey, of the Under
writer's Association was the 9th +. Cur
rey lives out at Diamond Head.
Il was up at two o'clock this morn
ing" he said this morning and looking
out over the sea | was startled to see
the lights of a ship i'm very close. She
was sailing westerly and had every
sail set, so far as I could see. There
was no moon, but the white sails stood
out very clearly. | was still thinking
to myself that the ship was very close
i'm when / saw her stop.
It at once rang up central who gave
I me Diamond Head Charlie and he an
swered at once that he was watching
the shin. OF course l knew that he
would know the proper course to pur-
sue. He said that she was not show
ing any signals of distress, nor indeed
! was she. so far as l could see
Il watched her for long time and
after a while she burned a flare, APP
parently to see where she was. She
did net send up any rockets or burn any
blue fire. Before daylight the Mauna
Loa came along and, it seemed to me
took a light hawser but after the Fear
less arrived she seem to drop further
negotiations with the stranded ship
$ Shortly before 8 o'clock the steamers
= Lehua and Likelike put lines on the
. vessel to assist the Fearless. The Fear
less took the windward position, the
l Likelike in the middle and the Lehua
S on the lea side. The vessel had evil
= IDENTIFY gotten well aground and SEEM
ed to be held toward the center The
81 forward part was moving more during
the morning than at any time since she
r got aground. The keel was evidently
r cutting the coral which was soft at
that place, for the whitened waters was
S visible even to those ashore. When
e the vessel would rise occasionally with
the swell, she seemed to strike hardest
about her mizZen mast. There was a
very strong trade wind prevailing.
The efforts of the pulling vessel.
were finally rewarded, for the vessel
came off and was successfully floated
at LILO H. III. Cllt Was llltll DlhNSnA
to the harbor by the Fearless Large
crowds of people went to the beach this
, morning to watch the work of saving
the vessel the different residents i'm
that vicinity of the beach being visited
by many people.
The Ernest Reyer was built i'm 1902,
0 She is a steel ship and is owned by II.
, and c. Guillon. Her gross tonnage is
, 5000. Her dimensions are length POI
. feet beam 43.S feet, depth "a feet.
. The question Of the salvage win now
y have to be settled. There win be tire,
!. several concerns now to share i'm the
, profit the Spreckes people with the
, Fearless, the Pacific Oil Transportation
: with the Lehua and the Inter Island
r Company with the Likelike. Had the
:. line that the steamer Mauna Loa got to
the vessel this morning not parted and
, the steamer remained the Inter- Tgla N al