The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-05-03

try who. with such means o., they had
. 90 hand. succeeded Boz nrhtur on the
deyourug element
/ The S2,OOOOOU tHruuuui Hotel is
still standing. and suffered little dam.
age. The odd Fellows Temple, on
/ Market street the st. Nicholas Hotel
and the Call and the Examiner build
iugs aud the Parrot building are gone,
while the big city HAN cavcd in COM
/ plctcIy when the earthquake shook the
+ city.
Nearly every big factory building has
/ been wiped out Of existence. and "a COM
/ pletc enumeration of them would look
/ like "a copy Of the city directory.
/ Many Of the finest buildings in the
city were lovcled to the dust by the
/ terrific charges Of dynamite in the
! hopeless effort To- stay the horror Of
fire. In this work many heroic soldiers,
I policemen and Gromcn were manned or
killed outright
SCENE OF DEVASTATION.
/ At o'clock tonight an Associated
Press man, who went to High Hill over
/ looking the city, noted that the sky in
/ the east and south sides was illumin-
ated for "a distance Of four or five miles.
| The illumination from the south side
was Of duller glow, showing that the
flames We're not consuming property Of
/ such great proportions as was the case
| on the east side
In the business district toward the
water front the flames were either
checked or blocked out about Washing
ton street, and at the corner of Kearney
] 81
ing. but it was impossible to determine
what damage had been done to the in
terror.
From the Hall of Justice TO the south
the fire cut its way through some Of
the choicest buildings in the city, the
Pacific Mutual and the Canadian
American bank being gradually reduced
to ashes.
Down Kearney street on both sides,
at 10 O clock, the connagration was still
raging with fury but the direction Of
the wind prevented its advance up the
hills to the west.
The greater portion of the structures
to the west of Kearney up to Dupont
were burned as far south as California.
All around the new fOurteenstory
Merchants Exchange building the fire
burned fercely, licking the sides of the
steel giant, but it resisted the flames
and heat.
Then came the obstruction of the
Western Union building, at the corner
of Pine and Montgomery streets. In
this building was located the office of
the Western division of the Associated
, Press
u WORK OF NEWSPAPER MEN.
, Earlier in the day the occupants had
= been ordered out by the authorities, on
account of the danger, and the Asso-
ciated Press established a temporary
, station in the Bulletin editorial rooms.
Then the latter place was closed, and
this dispatch is being written on a
:, doorstep near Chinatown, the illumina-
n ton of the burning buildings furnish
= ing light for the writer.
= 1t appeared that the great Mills
~ building would block some of the south
. ward sweep of the blaze, as it had al
ready checked an advance northward
o early in the night. If this prove true,
the limits of the fire will be deter
h mined, but predictions on this point are
4 rs unreliable as the strong winds, which
every few minutes are changing from
e one direction to another.
. ne city II uiutI martini law anu an
:, the downtown streets are patToled by
, cavalry and infantry. Detdils- of troops
II are also guarding the banks. Most OF
), the principal buildings have already
- been destroyed, and others are i'm inn
: intent danger. over all the scene of
desolation hangs a dense pail of smoke
=, Communication with outside towns is
% almost entirely cut off, but the report
comes from Palo Alto that all but one
Of the buildings Of Leland Stanford.
- Jr., university have been wrecked and
that the splendid Memorial church one
of the finest structures Of its kind in
= the world, is a mass of ruins one
student is known to have lost his life
9 The dreadful earthquake shock came
. without warning at precisely 5:13
,. o'clock This morning, its motion APP
parently being from east to west. AT
q first the upheaval of the earth was
: gradual. but in a few seconds it in
creased in intensity. Chimneys began
4, to fall and buildings to crack lettering
9 ON their foundations
People became panic-stricken and
rushed to the streets most OF them i'm
their night attire. They were met by
showers OF falling buildings, brick
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