Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-01-20
HAD TO NAVE JAIL
STORM ON MAUI DOES
NOT A LITTLE DAMAGE
THE FLuMEs OF WAILukU CANE
FIELDS ARE BLOWN DOWN.
POOR OLD JAIL HAS A
HARD TIME.
Especial 70 The Rnlletinl


Wailuku, Maui. Jan. l9.-StormJ
weather has come. 1t started last Sun.
day night. Kona winds commenced
blowing early Sunday morning and az
q result clouds OF red dust hung over
Waikiki the greater part of the day.
During the night the rain fell In tor
rents and the south winds blew with
such ferCeness thar trees and fenceh
were uprooted and blown over.
Next morning our meteorologists
claimed over three inches of rain fell
In Waikiki in six hours, the period
from midnight to early dawn. Maka
wac, Kula, and Nahiku, the home OF
perennial rain, reported heavier rain.
falls than here. There was rain all
Gay Monday. but cleared up again Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday.
Last night the storm set in again,
and after midnight almost every one IN
Wailukfwas awakened from their deep
slumber, shaking the very foundations
of houses. Ii almost blew a blizzard.
Knowing ones claimed 1t was blowing
at the rate of over one hundred and
twenty miles an hour. II was a mighty
wind, Trees were uprooted; banana
trees were blown down by the hun
dreds
The tall flume on the Waihee side OF
the Wailuku min which has wlthstood
the force of the elements during the
last ten years or more, could no longer
face the storm, and this morning moth
ing but pieces Of board here and there
among the cane fields reminded the ka.
maainas that this mighty structure has
at last suCcumbed. Thousands Of feet
Of flume. belonging also to the Wal
| luku plantation both in Waiehu and
Waihee, are now strewn along the hill
sides. The damage done TO the fumes
OF this plantation will amount to thou
sands of dollars. Manager c. b. Wells
H. expected back from Honolulu By this
evenings Mauna Loa
OF all the public buildings that Jared
/ badly last night, the old school house
now used as a temporary Jail and shcr
| IFS office, got the worst. Shingles were
| torn off the roof so that the rain came
Gown not in drops but like the mad
waters rushing out of damaged res
srvoir. Fortunately twenty OF the
prisoners were at the Kahului jail and
only nine were left at Waikiki. JailoI
rrowel! took his family and the re
naming nine prisoners to the Court
house near by, where they spent the re
\ mainder of the night. The Jail build
Ing being very old there were times
Tailor Crowell felt the whole building
would come down to the ground. For
tune willed II otherwise and the old
school house is still standing, an eye
sore TO the town and a public menace
TO the lives of Tailor Crowell and the
prisoners. II II should rain as hard
again as II did last night, Tailor Grow
ell will be compelled to move the pris
oners to some OF our hotels for safe
keeping during the night or until the
storm is over. Within the memory oi
every man. woman and child In Wailu
ku. no one could bring to mind a storm
OF such magnitude as the one last
night. Wives chung to their husbands
and wondered whether the Judgment
Day was coming. Children sat up IL
bed and cried as the branches of treei
passed over the roofs of their DWELLING
carrying with them shingles, chimney
tops, and telephone wires.
This morning the outer districts
could not be reached by telephone, bu
thanks TO Superintendent Carley anC
his corps of operators the lines al,
again in perfect working order an,
communications resumed. The new
road between Waihee and Kabalxuloi
was very badly damaged by the storm
the earth caving in and thus traffic /!
blocked for while.