Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-10-01

Kilauea we're either totally destroyed
or badly damaged, making the road
practically impa:sable. EVERYTHING
like loose material being s1ssd for
the construction oeet.e road toward
Hanalef went off m the flood. On the
Lihue side Of .Kilanea there was an
imP rIIse landslide, many tons of dirt
washing down from the hills upon the
road
At HanaIei.
The big, new bridge across the Ha-
nalei river near Princeville is still
there. but the retaining walls are
washed OUT and there are Indications
that one of the abutments was under
mined. The iron frame of the old
bridge, which had been left standing
when the new bridge was built, was
carried away by the flood The valley
down below was flooded and the small
rice planters suffered heavily. Hama
lei river is said to have been higher
than at any other time in its history.
At the first gulch on the Lihue side.
of Anahola the fill was badly damaged,
! but the road can be put into shape for
traffic without much trouble. The ac-
cident showed, however, that the road
scheme there is faulty and the wash
out will probably result in new road
line at that point.
kapaaites Cut Road.
The people of Kapaa rose to the.
occasion when they saw the water ris-
ing higher and higher around them.
They struck out in the storm and cut
"a canal across the macadam road
This undoubtedly saved the town from
greater damage The emergency cut
across the road was repaired on Mon.
day.
At xealia the rainfall Saturday
night, in four hours, was about Is
inches, and 20 inches fell in the as
hours back to Thursday The bridge
on the road to Colonel Spalding's
house and several railway bridges
mauka were washed out The Wal.
poui homestead tract was severely
washed out and suffered its proportion
of damage II
koloa Damaged $4,000. A
A conservative estimate of the pro-
perty damage on Ko1oa plantation Is
$4,000, which does not include the
damage to cane A rain gauge on the
Mahaulepu section of the plantation,
which is toward Lihue, showed that Is
inches fell in Is hours, an average OF
an inch an hour. E. ~
The heaviest item of property loss
at Koloa was in the complete destruc.
ton of cement intake which was re-
Gently built at a cost of about $4,000.
Much of other parts of the water sys-
tenn was damaged. At one place
pumping station located underground
was entirely filled with water and
mud, and it is believed that it is COM
pletely ruined
+ 1t is not possible now to figure the
damage from flooding Hundreds OF
acres of cane were left from one to
two feet deep in water, and the actual
loss will depend upon how soon the
land can be drained.
Damaged Roads. :.~.. -.
When al Is figured out it will doubt
less be, found that the damage to roads,
bridges and other public Improvements
by the storm was not less than $50.
900. .....
AT Nawiliwi1f new bridge on diff |
ferent lines will PROBABLY have to be ;
constructed. one much higher and
longer than at present. so that houses, !
horses. wagons, children and other I
wreckage brought down in similar +
floods In future may pass easily out
to sea without blocking the bridge and
causing the rush of waters to take a
lot of valuable roadway along with it
4 new bridge at Anahola will have TO
Be built =