The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-25
Still Searching For the Dead,
With Known List Standing At
Twelve - Mauna Kea Brings.
News Of Lahaina'sE Experiences
LANAI SUFFERERS SOME
/: H WASHED OUT. ROADS
Honolulu Chamber Of Com
merce, Through President Of
ficialIy Expresses Grief Of This
City Over Maui's Misfortune

With one Japanese girl still missing,
and believed to have been drowned by
the foods on Maui last week, the death
list remained stationary at twelve yes
terday, and II is thought that the total
Of the victims claimed by the kona
has been reported. No wireless des.
patches from the Valley Island reached
here up to midnight yesterday, but news
and additional details of the damage
done by the storm came on the Inter
Island steamer Manna Kea, just in from
Lahaina. .H sas
That village, it appears escaped the
full fury of the kona, and according
tosreports the damage was compare
lively slight. No one was killed and no
houses we're washed away as was the
ease at Wailuku. The radio station and
the power plant were put out Of com
mission by the foods and the streets
were filed inches deep with mud, but
the mud is being swiftly cleared away
and the electric stations are reported to
be working again. The only real loss
SUFFERED at Lahaina was that of two
Japanese fishing sampans, smashed by
the seas. ,..E .-s''
Reporters Are Busy q
The road to Waikiki, cut into great
gullies by the foods and piled high with
boulders and broken limbs of trees,
win be re opened within few days ac-
e0rding to reports brought by Freight
ClerR Thompson, of the Ma,lna Kea yes
terday. The telephone repair gang Is
also hard at work and expects to have
communications opened up again in q
few days. ID. ~. y ET,t
The steamer had little trouble land
ing passengers and freight at Lahaina
on both her inner and outward trips,
and the weather on the Is howeward
bound voyage was delightful! N Il
Travellers ON the Mauna Kea, who
were on the island of Lanai during the
/ worst of last week Is storm, report that
island also suffered, particularly the
roads, which are cut and Quilted by the
rains and the wash from the bank.
Word Of Sympathy a
The local chamber of commerce yes
terday sent TO the Maui chamber the
| following message of sympathy:
| "January 20, 1916. -
I"Mr. F. r. Baldwin, E.sa 49,.
president, Maui Chamber Of Com.
l. merce, Wailulu, Maui. t.r IA
"Dear Mr.. Baldwin: sSE'
at would not be typical of Hawai-.
ian human nature to hear of the ter
rible calamity suffered by the Island
of Maui during the past week without
giving vent to genuine expression OF
sympathy. ",5rsI,t..,...
'tIndiv' luaIly, and on behalf of the
Chamber of Commerce OF Honolulu, ]
wish to voice the intense feeling of
j sorrow caused the members of our body
upon receiving the telegraphic account
of the catastrophe.
sit is with extreme regret we learn
of the apparent heavy damage to prop,
erty, but, above all, we wish to tender
our most sincere sympathies to the PEG,
pie of Maui who are suffering by the
sudden taking away of loved members
of their families during the storm which
carried with it toll unknown before
in Hawaii. 4
/ 4. every respectfully,
4 "FRED l.. WALDRON, =
4 g. PRESIDENT - z
List of Dead
ii The following list of the dead to date
has been made public on Mani;
Mrs. Sodatani, Japanese, about 30
years old, and her twO-year-old child.
Juan Roman Madronar, about Az
years Of age, and his thirty-twoye year
old wife and two-mOnth. old baby girl,
Seville Fernandez, aged about forty
his wife, about thirty years Of age, and
a son about one and one half years old
Theodore Marques, a Filipino, about
twenty-five years old. s
Chinese, forty years Of age; name Is
unknown. '.." g.
A Japanese Buddhist priest, named
Suyataki Jitsu, age about thirty years
A daughter of Mrs. Sodatani, the
| dead Japanese woman, is still missing