The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-01-30
Prom Wednesday Advertiser.l

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Within an hour and a half after
leaving its berth in tow Of the Inter.
Island tug Intrepid in Honolulu harbor
shortly after one o'clock yesterday
afternoon the Hawaiian Dredging
Company's dredger, George p. Den.
ison, its hull opened was an oyerturn.
ed mass of wreckage sunk in forty
feet of water of the first buoy enter
ing. . Pearl /, Harbor. Fourteen men,
members of the crew, that manned the
Inflated dredger were being pulled
from the water as they were forced to
abandon the doomed craft and taken
aboard the tug Intrepid and the sea
going launch Margaret which had gone
to the rescue and came near being
wrecked in doing SO.
The dredger was valued at 100000
and though it carried ordinary fire in
surance in the sum of 100000, il is
announced that there was no marine
insurance. AS result the loss prob
ably will fall entirely upon the com
pany, Some saving probably will be
made in salvaging tho dredger, the
spuds of which are now the only signs
visible of the wrecked craft. Its over
turned hull is wave swept and IL was to
this that some of the members of the
crew chung even as the craft capsized,
to sink for all they knew in a hundred
feet of water. s
Grew Stuck TO Posts. "y
- That none of the brave men who
manned the barge lost their lives seems
a miracle. As il is, J. II. Silva suffered
badly sprained left shoulder and left
| leg. He also was otherwise injured
but uneomplainingly bore up and re-
| fused aid in getting ashore. The other
man injured was Japanese laborer,
whose left leg, between the ankle and
knee, was torn and laeerated as the
crashing stays struck him when the
drcdger was sinking. t.g. AZ
Ordered Out by Atkinson.
Captain Olson received orders from
| Castle Il Cooke at noon yesterday 10
at once make the Intrepid ready to tow
the DenisOn to Pearl Harbor to relieve
the dredgor b, +. Dillingham; now in
use thorc. Though Olson had arranged
TO tow schooner TO sea he cancelled
that arrangement and within an hour
and a half he had started with his tow
for Pearl Harbor. This order. 1t was
announced by John Drew of Castle &
| Cooke, was given by X. w. Atkinson
who In the absence of Walter Il. Dill.
lingham, president of the Hawaiian
Dredging Company, who is now al
Washington, is acting as general man
ager Of the company.
4 Get the Denis0n TO Pearl lIarbOl
/ without DELAY, y Is the tordar Atkinson
Is said to have issued Accordingly
everything else was set aside to carry
out his instructions.
A strong wind was blowing at the
time. thee was n rough sea. hut in
face of this the Intrepid headed into
the seas and with its ponderous tow
made fair time until of Pearl Harbor
."... First Sign Of Peril.
Then according to Henry Vida, fore
man in charge of the Denison, the
heaviest squall came up. The big
dTedge was tossed about like a cork
Soon the stays braeing the dipper OF
the. dredge gave way. Then the sides
Of the barge dredge seemed to weaker
and started TO part, Water began pour
ing in and hurried orders were ISSUED
to get the pumps going. But the worl
of demolition. had gone too far and the
dredger began sinking and listing heav
! Nv. AS il sank on one side, Vida ant
his brave crew began taking off theil
shoes and heavier clothing and prepar
ing for what they felt was inevitable
The dredger then began settling NOR,
rapidly. and listing to starboard. Sool
the crew found themselves on the QUITE
port rail, great waves breaking owe
them. A moment latcr the dredger turn