Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-03-11
as playground of public roadway.
Bad Wreck Recalled.

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Carefulness OF the Kahuui r. Il.
Co. in guarding against accidents is
not a matter of new policy; it is The
carrying out of a policy established
thirty years ago following the only
bad wreck in the history of the road.
License Inspector Fennel when
reminiscent the other night recalled
this wreck. He was an employee of
the railroad at the time, then some
time in the SOS. At that time there
were no passenger coaches and the
passengers were carried in the freight
cars. The road up to Waikiki is up
u steep grade and a car will run by
gravity from Wailuku almost to Ka-
hului reaching a speed at one point
of fifty miles an hour. On the day
OF this wreck three women and their
children were passengers and when
the train arrived at Wailulu, the en-
gineer answered the signal of an out
slider and pulled the coupling pin,
disconnecting the engine and cars be-
fore they were properly blocked.
There were no brakes on the freight
cars. The cars started to roll down
the hill carrying the passengers to
almost certain death, as another train
was on its way up from kahului. The
engineer tried to catch the cars but
it was useless. The speed of the
freed cars was too much for that of
the engine, The cars ran into the up
coming train and one woman and her
two children were killed, while an
other and her child were terribly in
jured. The only one of the women
to escape was the wife of the engi-
neer and IL passenger on the train.
When the cars started down the hill
she tossed out her six months old
child and then jumped.
The policy of prevention Of acct
dents was put into effect shortly af-
ter this. The first Inauguration was
sliding switch at the top of the
steepest grade which, if not pulled
down, will shunt all cars into sand
bank. This switch is still used to-
day, trains from Wailuku all slowing
up while a brakeman runs ahead and
holds down the switch
LandlOcked HarbOr.
There are a number of people on
Maui who believe that the United
States Government intended 10 huild
a landlocked harbor at KahuIul in
stead of the brealwatcr. On the
Paia side of Knhului there is \ big
tract of land occupied by fish ponds
Some of these ponds are said TO be
thirty feet deep and the material be-
meath and surrounding of kind that
could be easily dredged, Here, so re-
port goes, is where the harbor was to
have been made. These ponds were
to have been dredged out and an en-
trance cut from the sea to the eX-
cayaton That the plan was aban-
doned was due to the trouble of get
ting the railroad moved which runs
makai of the ponds. An engineer on
Maui Is authority for the statement
that this land-locked harbor would
have cost the government less than
the two breakwatcrs that are to be
built, excepting the expense that
would have been incurred in con-
! demnng and purchasing the land oc-
cupied by the fish ponds and the rail
road.
An electric light plant is to be
, built between Kahului and Wailuku,
the company having a franchise for
the whole of Maui excepting the dis
! trict of Lahaina The Mauiian opti-
mist tells you that it will be only n
few years until two towns will be
! connected by n street ear line and
that the now vacant, untillable sand
hills will be covered by city resi-
dcnces. Doubling or believing this.
there is some reason today for q Wis
iting former resident 20 Kahuui TO
inquire "where is the postonice?' the
true question indicator of any city's
growth
Mauiians Want Praise Phrase.
Mauians will never admit IT 10 n
stranger, but among themselves there
IL often confession that what Maui
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