The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-12-31
RAVAGES
OF STORM
Prodigious Rainfall on
Maui--s0ciaI
Events.

| MAUI. December 28.-The past week
has been remarkable for heavy rams
from the north, series of cold north
, storms with a rainfall record of more
than 90 inches in localities of upper
Makawao, Kaupakalua, Huelo, Kailua
and other places. The rainfall on West
Maui was also heavy but the measure
of the downpour did not equal that of
East Maui The storm was most severe
on Saturday. The weather was cold,
the wind blew a gale and the rain came
in torrents The record at Makawao
postoff1ce, 100 feet elevation, was 14-S5
inches for the "a hours ending 5 o'clock
D. M, S.17 inches having fallen during
the preceding night. There was quite
a snow-cap on Haleakala's summit
and the heavy rolling of thunder was
heard all over the island. A fierce
shower of hailstones is reported from
Kokomo during Friday night.
Kamaainas state that they had never
seen such a volume of water rushing
down the gulches. At Kailua beyond
Huelo a new sixty-foot bridge was
completely swept away, the stream
below being strewn with timbers "a
incnes by "a. At Waikina in Pauwela
another quite large bridge was wash
ed from its supports. The road through
Maliko Gulch in Haiku was impossible
because of the freshet and cottage
just mauka of this road formerly occu-
pied by Mr.. Douse and family was
swept ten feet off its foundation and
was only prevented from being carried
neighboring eucalyptus trees.
At Kaupakalua the grape vineyards
of Manuel Borges, Frank Gonsalves,
Antoine de Souza and Antoine Franco
were destroyed, about 2 feet of the
rich soil being carried away, leaving
the lava rock below. The vineyard of
Frank Gonsalves was the best in the
vicinity. Manuel Nunes had a valu-
able cow drowned in the rushing
waters.
A ffty-foot connecting tunnel of the
Maui Agricultural Co. near Kaupaka-
up with water, earth and debris.
The volume of water was such that
about 2 feet of it flowed over the ap-
proach to the cement bridge between
Kaluanui and Puuomalei, washing out
At Kailua CPaia Plantatione a small
tressel-work bridge was also washed !
out.
q hnadS i'm
lao Valley belonging to wailuku Plan !
tation were carried away and all the
bridges on the road to Maalaea Bay
from Wailuku were washed out. The
mail Of the Kinau being passed from
man to man mounted on horses.
Tt was rainy and cold both on Christ |
mas eve and Christmas day, and the
weather is still threatening.
MASONRY.
Last evening the third annual install /
ation of officers OF Maui Lodge of
Freemasons took place at their new
temple at Kahului. The new officers
Tor the coming year are as follows: D.
Fl. Case, right worshipfu1 master; D.
:. Lindsay, senior warden; G. e. Cope
and, Junior warden; Thos. M. Church,
senior deacon; George Keeney, Junior
deacon; D. F. Nicholson, treasurer;
BENZ. Williams, secretary; Geo. May
Geld, senior steward; Jas. A. Reid, ju
Nor steward; Max Eckart, tyler, and
R. T. Wilbur. inner guard.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
The Christmas tree exercises in the
oarlors of the Paia Foreign church
we're most successfully given Thurs
lay afternoon.
In front of a pretty tree glittering
with ornaments and surrounded by in
paper parcels the following