The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-14
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4 BIG PULL
Manchuria May Come
OFF the Reef
Today.
Aboard S. S. Manchuria.

D.. M, Thursday.
The usually spick and span Manchu
ria is a very dirty boat just at pres
ent. All day the shovelers have beer
at work throwing overheard the pile:
of coal from her upper decks and it i!
! now without becoming begrimed and a:
black as a coon. The CRIME has ever
found it's way into the saloons anG
cabins and officers, stevedores and
deckhands are equally dirty. The work
of throwing overheard the coal has
been going on all day and will be
finished by tomorrow morning. On the
starboard side of the vessel, where the
coal is being shoveled, it is almost
possible to stand on the heap without
getting wet, so high is it piled up at
that spot.
The pumps are at work on the two
after holds and will keep going all
night getting out the water. All the
cargo is out and the vessel looms up
out of the water much higher than has
been the case at any time since she
stranded, while the further tightening
by getting rid of the coal and the wa
ter will bring her up still higher.
On Wednesday blasting was begun
on the coral reef at the liners stern
and considerable headway has been
made. A number of heavy charges of
dynamite have been fred under the
superintendency of Abrahamson, the
diver. assisted by Lord & Belser's men,
and so far as can be judged WITHOUT
sending down a diver the coral has
been appreciably broken up without
any damage whatever resulting to the
vessels hull.
Hundreds of fish killed by the con-
cussion of the heavy charges of giant
powder, are floating about in the lee
along the beach. The explosions have
been severely felt in the surrounding
water because the charges have sim
ply been sunk on to the reef and ex-
having been drilled in the coral.
AT present, in addition to the 100
stevedores, there are $50 japanese at
work on the boat, part of the number
brought in on Wednesday by the Ka-
sato Maru. These were brought over
yesterday from Honolulu. being taken
off the Maru without being landed
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cargo and shoveling coal.
For the past week the Manchuria
has been perfectly rigid in her bed. the
crumbling. coral and the sand having
settled about her and holding her dead
without the slightest motion That
was the condition until today At 2
o'clock this afternoon the big steamer
began pulling on her own winches, con-
lected with an elaborate system of
anchors, and it was not long before it |
:ould be felt that she was in motion |
All afternoon this pulling was kept
Up and the results were said to be very
to Captain Metca1f and /
'aptain Saunders. In the hauling she
vas moved some little distance astern |
md the cementing sand and coral |
Lround her had been loosened up. She |
apparently has begun to move out of |
Ter bed
So far the Restorer. Manning and
roquois have been simply keeping a
teady strain on her and have not be-
,un serious pull. At 10 o'clock to-
morrow (F'riday) morning, however,
With the first indications of the rising
ide, they will begin and the big pull
Fill come off. the steam winches of the
fanchuria and the combined power of
he three tows exerting their greatest
over
The coral has apparently been re-
1oved from around the steamers stern
nd it is expected that the tows will be
BILE to slew her stern around and
work her back into deep wa
ar.
The weather conditions are most
avorable and the heavy swell which
1reatened to do damage yesterday has
lateriaily subsided.
All aboard are confident that she will
g fioated in the big pull tomorrow.
Attorneys McClanahan and Kinney ,
anne over from Honolulu this morning
nd went aboard the Manehuria, re-
lrnirg this afternoon. DR. Humphreys
nd Judge Stanley arrived this after
oon and viii spend the night aboard
ne Restorer.
Governor Carter was a visitor at the
yaimanalo plantation this afternoon,
ut did not come out to the wreck.
The dredger Pacific returned from
honolulu early this morning and is an
hored here. She has been laying out
nehors. !,