The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-07
If There's Virtue in Experience YOU'LL BUY GAS STOVE
SOME DETAILS
Of GREAT STORM
The Weather Gives Maui Rough
House---S0ciaI and
Shipping.

MAUI, January 4.-The holiday sea-
son on Maui has not been time OF
quiet enjoyment as far as weather is
concerned. Dame Nature has echoed
anything but the Christmas sentiment
of peace on earth and goodwill to-
ward men,
Before recovery could be made from
the effects of the recent north storm
with it's 20 inches of moisture in local
tiles, on Saturday the wind changed
to the southwest and an old-fashioned
kona storm came into being. 1t contin-
ued to blow flercely all the night
through, accompanied by an incessant
play of lightning and the heavy roll Of
thunder. Two or three inches of rain
fell. On Sunday, the wind lessened but
the rain came down in torrents, 1855
inches falling in the Makawao section
within "a hours.
Monday afternoon th,re was rise in
temperature of about IA degrees. The
able and the wind shifted from the
southwest to due south with velocity
much greater than even that of the
Saturday night before.
During the latter part of the after
noon the wind shifted again and this
time to the southeast, it's velocity at
soul-appalling thoughts of billiards.
and hurricanes filled the mind. For
tunately the fiercest blasts came only
in short gusts but it was during these
blows that the great trees succumbed
and most damage was done.
Many trees fell everywhere in the
Makawao section. Giant eucalypti 70
to so feet high and or feet in cir
toppled and fell during the
short cork-screw gusts from the south
east.
Stables and servants quarters were !
smashed in by falling trees, pineapples |
leveled, cane-leaves whipped and fray |
ed, and the ground so strewn with I
branches, bark and leaves that yards |
and lawns appeared as though a thou
sand demons had been having trough |
house there.
In Kula many panini trees were
thrown down and the ground was lit
terd with their large thick, oval leaves
Quite a number Of houses were NOV
ed off their foundations. In Makawao
Jacintho Estrella was lying sick in his
cottage when the kona threw 1t of its
causing the building to
drop about 4 feet. This shock of fall
ing so affected the sick man that he
lost control of his mind and his fam
lily was obliged to take him to a
neighbours residence about a half a
of the wharf at Kihef was en-
tirely swept away.
At Kahului the lagoon has much ex-
tended its borders and a part of the
road is covered with wa
ter.
The race track at Spreckels' Park is
uooueu anu quite d pOTtlOn OF the QlSn
board fence has been blown down.
The damage of the storm at Kahu-
ui and Waikiki was much less thar
that accomplished on the western slope
Of Haleakala. During Sunday and
Monday old Haleakala presented the
spectacle of running streams
and waterfalls in all its many gulches
usually dry.
The kona storm was especially severe
N the Lahaina section. The telephone
ines Were everywhere broken and
thrown down and many trees and other
wrecked. Monday night a
all tree fell in front of the Lahaina
telephone central office, carrying all
The wires with it, so that on Tuesday
he whole Lahaina telephone system
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