The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-07-20

years.
Most Of the passengers were Orientals
He gave no thought to either boat,
assuming that everything was all right
until he saw a red lantern swinging on
the wharf. Then he sent of third
boat, in charge of the purser, with
orders to find out what was the mat
ter. The pprser's boat cturned shortly
with q report Of the capsizal
Searchlight Showed Nothing
The night was dark and it was not
possible TO follow the boats with the
eye more than two or three boat 3
lengths from the ship No warning had
been issued to the hOatsteerers, because
it had seemed superfluOus. In weather
at all rough II was the captain 4 custom
to send an officer off to inspect the
channel II the officer reported the pas.
sage dangerous, it was not attempted.
AS soon as the accident was reported,
the searchlipht was turned GU, but il
showed nothing. The boat was over.
turned about twenty minutes after nine
and the Kilauea weighed anchor ut Eve
minutes before, eleven. ,,,
Boat, on Course
The two 0arsmen and the boatsteere
all testified that the boat, was of her
course when she. swamped and that the
comber that inset her caught her
broadside On. We she had been heading
into the chahhebrthe eomber would have
CAUGHT her asterh. -
The two oarsmen, Moses Smith and
Lipano Kohoolui, cUuldi mot, see the
course the steersman was pointing, be
cause they were facing him, with their
backs to the bow. They based their
Judgment on the relative position OF
the lights ashore and the gas buoy
near which the Kilauea anchored, and
where they found themselves wher
they got out from under the capsized
boat.
On other points their testimony di
verged widely. There was no agree
ment among them as to the distance
of the boat from the ship or from thu
shore, or the depth o. water in whici
she upset. One witness said eight o.
ten feet of watens lanother said cup t.
my. chin. n.g. sfICEG{I4 !"lf
il The fact, however that the gun
wales Of the boat were badly ehewe,
Thy the reef sSanAs - establish con
lciusively that the wave ssrnck he
either directly oversthe reef or jus
outside it, hammered her up and dow
on the coral few times, and thel
washed her over into deeper water.
| The wave rose so suddenly an,
struck so heavily that it SLAPPED tn
boat steerers oar before he knew. wher
he was short and capsizeda the boa
before he or the oarsmen knew wha
had hit them. 90. pI!' g.
No Oars Recovered G.,,..
! A curious thing about the aeciden
Is that none Of the Ave oars lost over
board has been recovered, ,althOug
both the bodies of those drowned wer
was shed ashore. Captain Berg testiRe,
that they were all heavy ash oars, Il
good condition. .N,l
Haiku Iona, the boat steerer, VIII
had a better chance, to guage his post
ton than the oaTsmen, placed the boa
about twenty Eve feet inside the reef
and equnl distance from the ehanne
leight hundred OF thousand feet frOT
1.-THE ship and n hundred ioE moro fror
the shore, at the time she wa
swamped. ~. " i't''<'
Moses Smith had, been afsailnr wit
the Inter Island three years but ha
never landed at Lahaina before Tons
the bOatsterrer. testified that he wa
thoroughly familiar with the ehann,
and had stcercd boats into it for 81
months before May !. LipanO KahOC
luhi, the other seaman, had been
year with the Inter Island and in tina
time had been running regularly :
Iahniua for the last six months on tn
iClaudine.
Kahooluhi Frank Witness
| Kahoomhi was frank witnes
When the boat tipped over, he foun
himself underneath and Owed to g
into open water, A trunk bumpe
him, on tn" head and he failed to max
it, On the se"oDdJ trial, he worke
free and struck, out for shore.
On the way in. he overlook a Japi
Dese and helped him on board san
Ipan that was coming out, but he mad
no personal effort to save anybody O
the time of the upset and received n
orders from the boat steerer.
OF the ten passengers, five wei
rescued by the crew and lodged astrid
the keel of the overturned boat. tw
, were drowned and the remainder gC
10 shnrn ynmnhnu