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

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feet above sea level and the waves
we're breaking about halfway up. All
OF us had thrown out our lines, but
they. hae 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 inn
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 l
started to run. But il was teo-late.
The great mountain of water seemed
to enguif us. / went down first,
Cooper followed and that is all ] could
see. / could feel myself lifted by q
giant wave, pounded on the surface
and carried on across the surface OF
the rock. = !. sS9IA
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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.
1t was then that my leg was broken.
Cooper had caught mold 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. II
seemed to over many feet above the
ledge upon which we had been stand
ing and seemed like 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"
Owe Lives to Drowned Man
TO John Nascimento, the five who
have survived the terrible experience
eve their lives" said A. J. Cooper,
who was one of the most painfully in
Ijured. Il was standing by him few
moments before the wave struck US.
Don't stand so close he cautioned
us, but giving no thought to his own
danger. don't know what prompted
me or the rest of US, but we stepped
hack and advanced across the
ledge. Then came the wave and
was picked up and swept around the
ledge like q cork. / attempted to dig
my kinds into the hard lava and final
ly succeeded in getting my torn
fingers into a ledge where held until
that terrible wave and another had
passed. II would Judge the first wave
was about sixty feet in height
injuries Are Agonjzirg.
Abel NascimentoM the most serious
~ 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 cf his leg was broken
and forced through the flesh. so that
when he was picked up, the Jagged
end could be seen protruding. Cooper,
with his gashed leg and fingers and
Travers with his bruises, Will prob
ably be at work. within a week. but
ii may be months before Nascimento
RECEIVERS sufficiently to get back to
his daily routine.H
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 Jonn
Nasoimento, Happy Johnny as his
friends called him, had been washed
Ito sea. Then the pressing need OF
getting Abel Naseimento to medical
aid became apparent. He was carried
by his companions to railroad
hand car, standing on the track,
fifty yards away. TraVers and An
drade were sent to fetch the e~otner
members Of the party, whom they
found making their way across the
coral. At the cave where Nascimento
was carried his broken leg was tenn
porarily set and splints made from
a box were used 10 bind broken limb.
Then came the long wait for train.
which did not reach the point until
$50 o'clock yesterday morning.
As soon as the party arrived here
arrangements were made to send
searching parties for the body of John
Nascimento. Deputy Sheriff Kupau,
Eof Waialua was instructed to get to
work at once. and a reward OF two
hundred dollars posted for the re-
covery of the body. one. hundred dol
lars from the family of the young.man.
fifty from the Star-Bulletin and fifty
from the Typographical Union, of
which Nascimento has been a mem
Der. There is little hope, however.
that the body will ever be found, as
the tremendous waves that pound up
on the spot where it was lost rareiy,
if ever. turn back their dead
John Nascimento was director of
the Lusftana Society as well as prom
inent in the councils of Court Canoes,
Ancient Order of Foresters. ! Besides
this, he was member of the Interna-
tioBal Typographical Union.
Abel s. Nascimento, the most seri-
ously injured of the survivors, is pres
idonf IF the r ftciSouo: Cnciofv n a uolL