The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-05

ed the engine room, he knew that a
tragedy had occurred, and instinctively
he shut down the engine Then he
hurried below to be confronted with
the horrible spectacle of the mutilated
remains, and though death must have
been instantaneous, some Of the
muscles still quivered.
The engine is not one that can be
stopped instantly. 1t is probable that
between HaiIele's death and the stop
ping of the engine the crank shaft re-
volved twenty or thirty times. But
it made no difference to HaiIeIe. His
death and mutilation was the work of
the single revolution that followed the
catching of his sleeve on the oil cup.
All the revolutions that followed neith-
er affected his consciousness, nor in
any further way touched the inani-
mate remains. The accident caused
so little tremor in the great machinery
that shirt button that in the tragedy
had fallen on the main journal, re-
mained as undisturbed there during
the twenty or thirty subsequent revo-
lutions, as if it had lain on. the floor
Hailele was about twenty-six years
of age, and married. He had had two
children, both of whom have died. He
was a stevedore by occupation, an in
telligent man, and not unaccustomed
to machinery, as he was a donkey en-
gine driver on the wharves.
Engineer Wilkinson was very much
affected by the accident, though it was
wholly without fault of his. Earlier
in the forenoon he had seen Hailele
at this very point standing up straight
without steadying himself with one
of his hands, and had called him out
and had himself gone to the place and
shown him how he should steady kim
self with one hand while oiling with
the other, repeating to him the apho-
rism of the craft, lone hand for your
self, and one for the machinery"
My first impulse" said Wilkinson,
when I saw the body was to gather
it up. Then reflected that the man
was dead, and assistance to him i'm
possible. and that 1 had better notify
the police and the coroner, and let them
see just how the accident occurred
AS soon as the police were notified
Chief of Detectives Taylor went to the
station. Deputy Sheriff Jar
rett gathered up jury and went there
later, arriving about two hours after
the dcclQent. CnleI 1ayIOr nOtlned Z.
S. Holloway. as head of the Depart
ment of Public Works under whose
jurisdiction the pumping plant is oper-
ated
The coroner's jury consists of
Charles Mitchell, Ed. F'rieI, Stephen
Gumpfer, a. Tripp, William Prestidge,
and w. MCGOWAN. They viewed the
remains and the inquest will be held
today, the jury going out to the pump
ing plant in the forenoon to see the
engine in operation.
The body was taken charge of by
Silva.
The widow of the deceased came
from her home to the pumping station
when she heard of her husbands
death, but did not go inside, and quick
" went away.
The news of the accident quickly
through the neighborhood and /
L large crowd gathered long before the /
and his jury got there.
There was some criticism of the coro- /
ler that he delayed coming to the
scene of the accident while he hunted /
Up a jury down town, when the acci-
lent occurred in a thickly settled part
If town and a jury from among the
,ystanders could have been quickly