The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-07

along the waterfront this morning
poised his scythe for moment and
then with one sweeping stroke har
vested another life The body lies
floating in the harbor alongside the
Kinau wharf waiting for removal
while sordid crowds line the struc.
tire and foreshore gazing on the
grewsome sight.
The Kinau wharf was crowded with
the usual number of workers this
morning. Drays were being backed up
70 the sings. jokes were cracked and
the scene was just that to be ssen
any day on the front
Suddenly there was scream, few
awful minutes of suspense, a rush of
people to the side Of the wharf, hur-
ried orders shot out by Chief Mate
George Mansfield, another rush as the
men jumped to obey them. One small
overturned boat floated alongside the
Kinau, two men were swimming for
their lives and twenty-eight feet be,
low the water, entangled in a mesh of
harness a life struggled with death for
moment and then gave up. The body
lay lifeless on the bottom of the bar
her.
So it was that William Mule passed
Out OF this life into another and with
the passing came the regrets OF the
owner and the necessity for digging
up two hundred and fifty plunks TO
replace the said mule.
1t happened this way. The mule
was attached to a dray belonging to
tina Honolulu Construction and Dray-
Ing Company and was driven on the
wharf this morning by an old Portu
euese Iuan. On the dray were load
ed SIX hundred bricks. When his
time came to back I'D to the slIrGs
the driver essayed to do so but fais
cd. owing to the way LhS cargo was
scattered about. He was then told 10
take his load round and come in thu
other way. The driver was willing
Dut the mule was not and right there
the trouble started.
The mule somehow or other got it
fixed int" his head that no was -
pack with his load and this he pro-
ceeded to q" IN spItS o: everything
anybody said to the contrary. Chic"
Mate George Mansfield saw tho uaN
ger and Immediately tried to stop the
accident. Just below the wharf and
underneath, where the mule
would fall If he went over, were tive
men in boat, painting shin.
The mule got the load right to the
edge and the men in the boat saw It
coming. In an instant they dived
Zach going a different way and the
lext moment the mule and drayload
If bricks crashed right down where
hey had been. The load just missed
he boat but went so close that IL
urned the boat completely over with
he wash.
The driver of the dray jumped
lear just as it got to the edge Of
he wharf and came out safe but the
mule was drowned Chief Mansfield
tent down a graphing hook and fish
ID the dray and harnessed mule to
he surface. The mule was cut loose
md the rest hauled to the wharf. One
# the dray shafts was broken but
otherwise there is nothing damaged.
The mule is tied alongside the
wharf waiting until it can be taken
way and disposed of. The incident
s more or less of a joke right along
he waterfront, but it might have re-
ulted in both men in the boat being
killed or at least seriously
injured by the falling load.
MANY VESSELS ON WAY.
Within a week the.e sNc lid be
lumber of windjamm srs arriving at
he rurt and enough ste9Iaers to keep
everybody fairly busy.
The schooner Blakely is thirty-four
lays out from Iquique and Captain
Manka can be looked for at any time
low. The Norwegian steamer Pro
with H. Jensen in charge has
'een down to Makatea islands for
'hosphates and should be lifting up
'Ver the horizon in the near future.
Then there is the little tug Hercu-
es struggling on her long journey !
rom San Francisco to Pearl harbor /
With the big gate for the dry dock.
The was expected to reach port yes
erday but SO far nothing has been
card of her. She should make port
oday some time.
Captain Kelly with the bark Andrew
Velch should be sighted at any time