Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-09
GANGWAY :
FALLS-MANY
ARE INJURED

a score OF passengers In the United
States army transport Logan that sail
ed from Honolulu for San Francisco
yesterday afternoon received painful
Injuries through the collapse of
weakened and defective gangway. the
accident occurring a few minutes be-
fore the troopshfp hauled away from
her pier at Manila
The gangway leading from the
wharf to the Logan Is said TO have
been small and fiimsily constructed
and at the time Of it's breaking under
the strain, about two score Of people
were either attempting to gain the
deck OF the transport or leave the yes
sci for the wharf.
Passengers aboard the transport and
spectators that crowded the deck were
Mortified at a deafening crash, follow
ed by the shouts of men and screams
OF women and children who had been
plunged to the lower floor Of the
wharf from a considerable height.
Medical officers from the Logan
rushed to the assistance of the in
jpred and first aid treatment was
speedily administered. With but few
exceptions. those receiving, injuries
and listed as passengers In the vessel
for Nagasaki, Honolulu or San Fran
cisco elected to remain with the tran.
sport. Manila spectators hurt at the
time were in some instances conveyed
TO hospital.
The injured passengers had com.
pletely recovered by the time the 10.
gan reached berth at Pier 6, Honolu.
lu, late Saturday night The Logan
was delayed about "a hours in steam
ing from Nagasali. owing to rough
weather With cabin. dormitory and
troop quarters well filled with travel
ers drawn from the ranks of the mill,
tary. navy and insular government,
the vessel remained at this port until
noon yesterday before resuming the
voyage to San Francisco. AS victims
OF the Philippine government guillo-
tine, 20 former employees are returning
TO the homeland. Joining the Logan
al Honolulu were about 200 passen-
gers assigned to various quarters.
Officers in the Logan bear out the
announcement appearing in the Star.
Bulletin that the vessel is to go out
Of commission for four or FIVE weeks
while new life-saying equipment is in.
stalled. The Sheridan will take up
the run to the Philippines in place
of the Logan, the former troopship
sailing from San Francisco April 5.
WaiIeIe Makes Quick Trip.
A speedy round trip has been COM
pleted by the InterIsland steamer Wa
ilele which Is today being discharged
of shipment of POTS sacks of sugar.
$50 sacks OF corn and a quantity of
empty containers, supplied at ports
along the Hamakua coast Of Hawaii
PurBer Smith, completing his second
trip as an officer in the Wailele re-
ports fine weather at the several ports
visited The coast and geodetic sur
vey steamer Patterson was passed at
Mahukona. The steamer Helene was
receiving cargo at Honokaa.
N
Mall Dispatched In Transport Logan.
Before the United States army
transport Logan pulled away from Pier
at noon hour Sunday. several hun
dred sacks OF mail were placed aboard.
The vessel Is due to cover the pas
sage to the coast in about eight days
and will land the correspondence at
San Francisco about "a hours In adj
vance of the mail to be forwarded to
the mainland in the Matsonia. A
large crowd of spectators gathered at
the wharf to witness the departure of
the troopship.
Kauai Sugar Report.
Sugar awaiting shipment on the ISL
and OF Kauai includes the following
shipments according to report brought
~ officers in the InterIsland steamer
Kinau: X. S. NJ. $50 bags. Gay and
Robinson 27.750. Hawaiian Sugar Com
pany 1884, McBryde 1856. Koloa TO-
GO, G.. F. 5000. L. p. $4,000, Kealia
27.750, Kilauea $780,