The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-07-21
kAIN|Ei ACCIDENT
MlYCAUSE DEATHS
Four Men Who Fen From Lofty
Platform Of MIL In Pre- g.,
carious Condition
mail Special to The Advertiscr)

VI the haWikl sugar mil, last sun
day afternoon, falling forty or more
feet to a shed roof and thence to- the
| ground. All four were rushed to the HilO
Hospital, where IL was thought at first
that two at least were fatally in.
iured, but Monday afternoon il was
stated by DIR. l.. l.. Sexton that they
have chance for life.
The accident was the elimination OF
the celebration of the opening of the
sugar mill, which was recently Rnished
under cooperative agreement to
handle the sugar cane of the Portu.
guese homesteaders and japanese cane
growers of that district.
The injured men are:
Alfred Silva, manager of the Kaiwi.
XII mill; vertebrae fractured and chest
crushed in, may die.
H. c. Anderson, chief engineer Of
Kaiwik mill; severe internal injuries,
! bruises and cuts.
| Ono, head carpenter Of Kaiwiki mill,
a japanese; head cut open, badly
bruised and cut, may have internal in
/ juries-
Nakamura, Japanese cane planter;
severely cut and bruised, reported in a
serious condition.
Unknown boy, foot badly cut by a
flying piece of glass; taken to his
home in an automobile.
As so many japanese were taking
part in the celebration il was de-
termined to have one part of the cere-
monies devoted TO them and for this
purpose small platform had been
built upon the top Of the mill tower
This was a fiimsy concern, reached by
ladder from the roof of the mill, and
was only intended to hold three or four
persons, who would throw small cere-
monial cakes to the crowd. In these
/ cakes were small pieces of money,
nickels and dimes.
Capt. of Police E. Da Silva, just be-
fore the time came for this distribu-
ton Of cakes, states that he warned
Manager Silva that this platform was
unsafe and that the cakes could he
! thrown from the window of the mill.
/ But Chief Carpenter Ono and the O:her
japanese insisted that the platfOr
would do for the ceremony and that
the ceremony made II necessary that
the head men of the concern should
throw out the cakes.
Anxious to please Mr. Silva, Mr..
| Anderson, Ono, Nakamura and several
others who followed to see the fun from
such vantage point, climbed to the
Itop of the tower. Ono, Silva and An
derson did the throwing of the cakes
and they had already thrown two or
three score when suddenly the light
railing gave way as Silva and Ander-
son made throw together and the
two men TOPPED over, one after the
other, followed by the two japanese,
| who clinched in the air and seemed to
strike the roof together.
l. Mr.. Silva struck first on the back
of his neck and shoulders upon the
heavy framework supporting sky
light, breaking the thick glass, part Of
which rained down On guests, includ
ing several women, below in the mill,
where the lunch had been spread. From
the roof Silva rolled over and fell to
the ground a distance of about twelve
feet, landing again on his head,
! Anderson struck the roof within two
feet of where Silva Fell aud also rolled
to the ground, where he was picked
up unconscious, placed in an automobile
Iand rushed to the hospital. He was
bleeding freely from the nose and
i
was fractured hnt this wos fnnnJ e.,
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roof tbev seomed IN Fv onor+ H. y
bomb, then rolled ovor and hon,ceJ "a
the ground Roth were takar mn nm
eonscious and ,I.cod ia .ha srs+ -;
able autom,hiIr and rnsheJ to tbo hos.
pital Ono. esuecinIy onnaored "a h.
the worst hnrt ot Tho time Int - do.
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cut on the ton If Lis hand ond 70 tha
fact that bis foce uos 80 az 1aa.
smashed brt ~ - mot+or nf f,ot ba 10
the Ieost ri,rrd ~ tho. en-
Immediately altar tho ace;der+ han.
neued the croyd nraeon+ .ros hid "a
TO see another Jononeso m The aims,
uniform lean over ana tbrooton ID en-
nit suicide IL bis sEboos,t 90 SaaJ
by iumpipg from tho roof Tbio roo,,
had apnorrntIv hren drinLin1 Co.. hn
first threw his con to tho aSonna on
the side where tbrre was ra rooF and
then delihnr,teIv ;,,onnJ rha aro,.'J