The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-21
Father and Babe browns AS Mother
Watches Minister Dies Praying

tVf piaHJatt0h villages near Wailtrku,
iutd "A devastatcd region where Death
feaped a horrible harvest. Amidst
thes vast ruek mid ruin, half score
Of mttilated bodies were found byt
fret days search.
sleeping Filipino, Hawaiian, Chinese,
aud Portuguese families were caught
| In the torrents, torn from beds and
bomes, hurled into torrents and car.
ried dead, fiangled or helpless down the
steep ihelines Of the valley into the
great guleh which passes the town OF
Wailukui The victims were buried be-
meath a iiiass Of wfeckage which almost
dched human efforts throughout the
first Asrrihle hours, rdel !.
Houses Ripped Asundsr "A.
From 2Ilaniwai III Ias valley, to the
mSuth Of the gnieh below Wailuku
Plantation mill, houses Of every do.
scrirtion were ripped from foundations,
tossed upon the torrent, overturned
and smashed upon the great bouldefs
Of the stream or upon the retaining
walls. Buildings were dashed against
the iron bridge which connects Wailu-
ku at Market street with the little VIII
lage bordering upon the river, and here
tofore called rtHappy Valley These
were hurtled upon the rows of stores
and cottages lining each side of the
main, street of Happy Valley, smash
ing them to atoms, piling old wreck
age into the lower structures, wilde
the food swept on, leaving death and
devastation in its roaring wake.
But one store remained upon the
4 Happy Valley street near the
bridge. Others were piled upon each
other, the lower ones crumpling, cfush.
ing sleeping occupants and burying
them under tons of timbers, corrugated
iron, mud and trees and roots, and al
though ten bodies were recovered when
darkness compelled a cessation of re-
lief work ON Wednesday night, only
when the depths have been turned up
to the light may others be, recover d.
The rarely morgue, crowded with
the dead, was mute evidence of the
destruction which had come upon
HHappy Valley Death had not
tdrawR race nor color line, for side by
side lay laboring people of many ma
tionalities, nearly all formerly EN-.
ployed by the Wailuku Sugar Company,
o(ouo OF DobOldJlOn r. .-g.E ~. ri
The bo,.ies Of horses, mules and pigs
by the score, and chickens by the hum
dreds were cast not upon the banks
/ " new rixfr bids hnlj throughout the
riRen canefelds. HuiAan bodies were
often found near those. of dumb beasts.
The scene from the Market street
bridge, up and down, was one of desc
lation, made even more pronounced by
the continuotis downpouring rain, the
masses of black clouds above, carried
nofthward on the wings Of the Koha
gale, lashing the turbulent torrents
into q furry, which those engaged in
the work of salvage and in the de-
tefmined effort to turn the masses of
water back into the original river bed,
faced skin!dfenched and mud plastered.
= Acts of. nerve were performed, and an
utter disregard for safety was displayed
by those engaged in this work, for
necessity requested that the elements
be overcome and normal conditions re-
stored quickly. Dynamite played a part
in the work of Harvesting the swollen
torrents and compelling them to obey
the hand of Ian, and when darkness
Overspread the town and the scene Of
devastation, man s efforts had triumph
ed .''s 'ts"<.tl q. %r...1
- Wailuku on Monday night was in
total darkness, save for fickerino candle
lights; water mains carried limited sup.
plies only for drinking purposes, as
the reservoir had been affected by the
change Of the FLYER s course, and carly
in the day the supervisors posted print
ed warning notices to the inhabitants,
limiting the use of water from the
mains To HtDrinkinp PURPOSES ONLY, -
and only between specified hours.
Water power for the electric plant
was shut of, because of danger from
falling lines and the mass of wires tan
gled in the wreckage, making relief
work hazardous, In darkness the inha-
bitants spent the night.
Then Comes Cloudburst
At five O'Clock in the morning of
Tuesday the cloudburst in lao Valley
sent huge wall of water into the
stream, tearing away the siphon of the
Waikiki Sugar Company. So terrific
was its impact that a new river course
was gouged near Ilaniwai, leaving the
reservoirs Intake nearly thousand feet
away from its former supply. The rain
| swelled the torrent until hnuses ware