Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-06-17


ly and half dozen or more were so
completely unnerved that they covered
their faces with their hands and
simply sat and shuddered and begged
their chaufreurs to try and turn about
and get away from the place of horror.
Some OF the GruesOme Incidents.
F'iremen, police and reporters, men
used to viewing tragedy a. countless
aspects, were robbed Of ordinary
calmness under such circumstances
and went about with the horror of 1t
all written in their eyes and express
ed in the RIGHTEOUSNESS of their
voices as they went over facts of the
horror. Some of the policemen and
nremen openly accepted offers of
TASKS thrust toward them from the
crowd. and their superiors winked ut
the infraction of the rules against
taking stimulants while on duty.
A big, brawny policeman sought gent
ly to lift body out of, the mound of
the dead to carry 1t away to the OPP
post corner, where the bodies were
being decently covered with tarpau-
Inns. The arm of the women came
off In his hand. lie stared ut ii an.
instant. then dropped the gastly thing
and staggered away. he tried 10 de-
scribe to another policeman what had
happened, but he was incoherent with
hysteria.
Firemen who first reached the rear
of the building and saw the single
fire escape in the back turned back and
fairly yelled-cries forced out of
them by the horror of what they had
suddenly come upon. They were pre-
pared to see what was CHASTITY. The
figures burned to skeletons that were
still at the machines, the PROSTATE
bodies all over the floors, had been
frightful enough. But the fre-escape
was the most gruesome sight of all.
When the treadway had sagged
under the feet of the panicstricken
and the guard rails split, men and
women had been thrown out into
space. But many of their bodies
struck upon the lower landings of the
fire-escape, smashed the railing and
left the bars exposed as pickets, upon
which the bodies coming after were
caught and torn and held. The struc-
ture of the rear fre-escape was ac-
tually hung with human bodies and
sections of torn flesh, ripped from
other human bodies as they fell into
the closed court below
Among the newspapermen was
cub" young man in his very early
twenties. In childhood his parents
had kept all sights of tragedy from
him; he was never even permitted
to attend an ordinary funeral. He
had, in short, never seen dead body
In his life. II was gruelling
baptism of graesomeness that tile
young fellow had in store for him.
He stood for few seconds without
seeing the heaps Of the dead on the
street. Then the "cub'reporter sud
denly asked one of the newspaper
men early on the scene: Where are
the people that are hurt--the ten
calls?"
The other reporter merely pointed
down along Green street and then in
1icated with his thumb the sidewalk
on Washington place.
A Cubs Baptism Of Horror.
The boy got waxen white and
rlutched ut the arm of his informant
Tor support, The first casual glance
had only indicated that the blackened
on the sidewalk were heaps
Of rolls of cloth and white linens
and laces tossed out of the windows
perhaps to save them from the flames.
lt was only when "A steady scrutiny
was had that the shocking truth
about the charred and blackened
mounds became apparent - when
through the heap of burned clothing
there was TO be seen iire-reddened
human face, protruding limb black
ened or turned crimson. The young
reporter, lowering his eyes to shut
out the sight, saw then the water as
Il rushed through the streets. He