The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-04
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. WITHEN|pTY BUGGY
Maui Family Wiped Out By
Drowning Last Seen Alive
+. -. At PuuIehu -

Further particulars Of the drown.
ing Of the Paeheco family In the waia
koa gulch on Maui last week have come
from Maui II seems that Pacheco,
his wife, Ave children ranging in age
from eight years to eight months, and
Pachco's sister in law, Miss Virginia
|Aruda, were on their way from Ka-
hului to Waiakoa to visit relatives
wnen they were overcome by the tor
rent in the narrow gulch which the
road crosses between Puulehu and
Waiakoa camp.
The kona storm which ragged on Maui
as on this island on the day after
Christmas did much damage on the Val.
ley Isle and was responsible for the
clopdburst in which the unfortunates
lost their lives. The following account
Of the tragedy is from the Weekly
Timesv Of Mailuku: r..-".e ~
Drowned Like Rats IL. y. = 'z .7.-
THE joyful and merry YuIetide was
marred on Sunday, the day after
ChristTias, by an awful tragedy at
Puulehu, in which a whole family of
eight were wiped out of existence,
drowned Ike rats in the little g1lch
between Puulehu and Waiakoa Camp,
above Camp VI 40. f..
THE victims Of the sad accident
were Manuel Pacheco, an employee of
the Kahului Railroad Company, his
wife and sisterin law and FIVE children,
OF which the oldest, boy, was eight
years old and the youngest only eight
months. Phcheco was about thirty two
years of age, his wife twenty.eight
and his sisteT-in-law, Virginia Aruda,
twenty -four years. ID. .-,, ~.
Worked on Sunday w.. g.
pPacheeo worked till half past ten
Sunday morning on the. big crane at
Kahului, and then set of in buggy
with his whole family to visit NaIa
koa Camp. D.. .-,.
GAS the party was nearing the
Puulehu Camp about noon, it began
to rain heavily. There was no top to
the buggy and Pacheco drove his horse
up to the plantation stables, and all
got of and sought shelter in the stables
until the rain was over. They also
| sried to borrow rain coats. When the
| 'hower had passed they started on the
road again and that was the last seen
If them alive.
LESS than an hour after a Japan
csc at the stables saw the horse com
ing back along the road with the empty
| buggy He did not attach much i'm.
eortance to this, fact at the time, but
imagined the horse had got away some
how and tied him up, o.. 1-.l
Japanese Discovers Tragedy
''The next morning a japanese, who
knew that PachecO had a brother9in,
law living at WaiakOa Camp, walked
over and asked him If the Paeheco
family had arrived safely on the
previous day. He received the startling
Information that they were expected to
arrive but failed to put in an appear
anco. The Japanese then went back
along the road to see if he could find
any trace of the missing travellers.
At last he came to a place where the
road cuts across a little gulch. He
looked around, and there on the bank
halfburied in mud, lay the dead body
of one of the children. He immediate
ly returned and gave the alarm, and
search party was formed, headed by
G. +. s. Burns, head luna Of the Maui
Agricultural Company, to look for the
rest of the family.
Bodies Washed Through Pipe
Give more bodies were discovered
in the mud not far from the spot where
the japanese found the little child,
and half mile farther on were the
remaining bodies, the oldest boy and a
baby, who had been carried through the
big ditch pipe by the onrushing waters.
County Attorney Bevins, accom-,
panied by three police officers, J. B.
Wilson, Jose Coelho and Tom Brown,
motored up to the scene of the accident
on Monday morning to investigate. The
superstition is that just as the Pacheco
party crossed the road in the gulch o
torrent Of water rushed down upon
them, inundating the road and carrying
them away bodily from the buggy. +