The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-08-25

Manchuria Neither of the concerns
has as yet taken any active part i'm the
work however Nor is it probable that
they will be called in for the present.
Along the water front there is a
growing belief that the South American
earthquakes were responsible indirect
ly of course, for the wreck Of the Man
churia. Captain Stinson of the trans
port Logan which arrived here last
Wednesday and Captain Dowdell of the
s. S. Alameda which arrived last Fri
day, report a heavy westerly set of the
current when near these islands. The
Manchuria was about five miles out Of
her course toward the northward and
westward at the time she picked up
Mokulua STAND instead Of Makapuu
Point. She had evidently been swept
over out of her course by the strong
current
The seismic disturbances about Val
paraiso are now drought to have caus-
ed the current The earthquake in
South America began August 10 as
reported. On the following day the
big earthquake at Valparaiso occurred.
This was four days before the Man
churia went ashore. 1t is believed that
the unusual current which was evil
IDENTIFY unknown to Captain Saunders,
was caused by the earthquake and set
his vessel out of her course.
Both Captain Stinson and Captain
Dowdell will be able to give some very
Interesting and valuable testimony
when the official inquiry into the
causes of the Manchuria being out of
her course gets under way. Captain
Saunders will, i'm effect, be on trial
and evidence of this character will
prove of great aid i'm him i'm clearing
himself from blame for the disaster.
most significant condition was OBJ
served here on the day of the earth
quake. The glass at Honolulu went
down to 1890. This was low enough
to cause local seafaring people to ex-
pect a gale but to their establishment,
nothing o fthe sort occurred and the
fine weather continued. The failure
of the expected gale to appear caused
a great deal of comment. 1t is now
thought that the seismic disturbances
had some connection with the dropping
of the glass and incidentally caused
the westward and northward set of the
current was the cause of the Manchu-
ria piling up on the WaimanalO reef.
The work of putting out heavy an
chors so that the vessel can run lines
| to them and hold herself down against
| the humping caused by the swells, has
! -.
very excellent anchors have been put
| in place. Practically all Of them have
been put astern of her. BY yesterday
afternoon there were y place astern OF
| the vessel, one Z ton anchor. two 4 tor
anchors and one 8 ton anchor. Forward
/ by her bow there was a heavy anchor
that the ship had put out on Monday
! The vessel had lines to all of the sterr
anchors but a line to one of the tor
| anchors parted yesterday afternoon
! Some smaller anchors are to be put ir
| place today. The principal difficulty
| is that there are not strong enough
! lines to enable the vessel to hold or
the anchors.
There is one very fortunate circum-
stance i'm connection with the position
of the vessel. This is that there is
magnificent holding ground near her
! None of the anchors have dragged on
the bottom and have evidently got
holding that enable them to Withstand
all of the strain that the lines will be
able to bear. 1t is absolutely i'm.
perative that anchors should have goot
! holding ground before the great strair
| i'm getting the vessel off is attempted
Such ground seemed to be obtainable
A number of cases of coal oil tina
had been on the deck of the Manchurif
for Honolulu were brought to the city
last evening. 1t has been suggested
that this might well have been dump
ed overheard in an effort to keep dow
the sea about the vessel and in thl
manner help to lessen the cause of he
humping. Oil bags might even be pu
out on the port or weather side of tn
vessel, it is suggested.
The Revenue cutter Daniel Manning
departed shortly before 10 o'clock thi
morning for the scene of the wreck
She had to take ON coal and som
stores for herself and for the Restorei
The Manning will probably be given
line with which to haul on the Man
churia. The revenue boat ought t
have reached the Manchuria by moo
today.
The tug Eleu with the Pioneer i'm toy
departed about noon today for the Man
churia, with a quantity of heavy tim
bers on the Pioneer. The timbers an
to be used i'm connection with gettin
anchors and chains out from the steam
er. The tug and tow ought to reac
the steamer by 1 o'clock this after
noon
The excursion to the Manchuria whic
the steamer Kinau advertised for tC
morrow has been called off by tn
Inter-Island Steam Navigation Com
pany. There was not the prospect {
sufficient patronage to warrant tn
Kinau being sent out so. it was dc
cided this morning to abandon the en-
terprise,