Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-02-17


!, feet above the level of the sea.
Turning he-enlled.. lock OUT fer
lows, here comes wave, Run. Rum
But il was too late, The wall of
green water swept ever the edge OF
1.-The ledge, engElfing them, clutching
at them with tearing fingers. batter
ing them against the cruel coral Says
Abel Naseimento, in telling OF the
laffair:
I'VE had no idea of the danger We
were in. The promontory from which
we were fishing extended out into the
ocean about sixty feet and was about
forty feet wide 1t is about twenty
feet above sea level and the waves
were breaking about halfway up. All
of us had thrown out our lines, but
they had become tangled. was
standing at the far end of the bluff.
Cooper stood next TO me, Vincent adj
Joined him, Trayers was next TO him
and Andrade was fourth in the line.
Ny brother, John. was on the oppo-
site side, close to the edge Of the
ledge.
Il was working over my line when
my attention was attracted by an i'm
mense wave coming from the north
west. saw it would strike the ledge
in such way as to sweep over every
thing, and calling to the crowd /
started to run But it was too late.
The great mountain of water seemed
to engulf US. | went down first,
Cooper followed and that Is all could
see. i could feel myself lifted by
giant wave, pounded on the surface
and carried on across the surface of
1.-THE rock.
Caught by Cooper
As / went | grabbed about for some
thing to winch could hold. grasped
a crevice in the rock and held firmly.
There seemed slight pause and then
was caught again and swept around.
/ It was then that my leg was broken.
cooper had caught hold of me- ! had
also caught him with my free hand
and in this way We were kept from be-
ing swept into the sea.
THE great wave had scarcely pass
ed when another came. The first
seemed at least thirty feet high. 1t
seemed to over many feet above the
ledge upon which we had been stand
/ ing and seemed like a great mountain.
! Vincent Travens was Knocked down
and dragged over the rock. Andrade,
who had been standing next to my
brother, was within few feet of the
edge of the precipice. My brother,
John, probably did not have chance
and was carried directly into the sea"
Qua 4 i.FAa - nro.nraA
ITO John Nascimento, the five who
have survived the terrible experience
owe their lives" said A. ]. Cooper,
who was one of the most painfully in
ljured. Il was standing by him a few
moments before the wave struck US.
Don't stand SO close he cautioned
Us, but giving no thought to his own
danger. | dent know what prompted
me or the rest of us, hut we stepped
back and advanced across the
ledge. Then came the wave and !
was picked up and swept around the
ledge like cork. / attempted to dig
my kinds into the hard lava and final
ly succeeded in getting my torn
fingers into ledge where held until
that terrible wave and another had
passed. would Judge the first wave
was about sixty feet in height.
injuries Are Agoniking. s..
Abel Nascifnento, the most serious
ly injured of the survivors, is suffer
ing from compound fracture of the
left leg, besides cuts and bruises on
the body and decorations of the left
arm. The bone of his leg was broken
and forced through the flesh, so that
when he was picked up, the jagged
with his gashed leg and fingers and
Travers with his bruises, will prob
ably be at work within a week, but
it may be months before Nascimento
RECEIVERS sufficiently to get back to
his daily routine.
After the second great wave passed
and left the survivors gasping for
breath and in pain on the ROCKS, a
count was taken ana then for the
first time was it seen that John
Nascimento, Happy Johnny as his
friends called him, had been washed
to sea-. Then the pressing need of
getting Abel Nascimento to medical
aid became apparent He was carried
by his companions to a railroad
hand car, standing con the track,
fifty yards away. Travers and AM
drade were sent to fetch the other
members of the party, whom they
found making their way across the
coral At the cave where NascimentoI
was carried his broken leg was tenn
porarily set and splints made frofnl
a box were used to bind broken limb 1
Then came The long wait for train
which did not reach the point until
$3.50 o'clock yesterday morning. n
As soon as the party arrived hertz
arrangements were made to sentl
searching parties for the body of Joht
Naseimento. Deputy Sheriff Kupak
of Waianae was instructed to get b
work at once, and a reward OF two :
hundred dollars posted for the r. |
covery of the body, one hundred, dbl
lars from the family of the young m$n, !
fifty from the Star-Bulletin and filty
from the Typographical Union, Iof /
which Nascimento has been mfm-
Der. There is little hope, hoWeter,
fhof the h0dv rri1 ever hc fa,1fa At a q 4