Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-24

Several young children. who are
orphans. are being cared for by fam.
lilies in Waikiki. Guardianship pa
pers have In all cases where there
was need been taken out so that ey.
cry precaution for the permanent re-
lief Of destitute children has been at.
tended to.
An interesting fact has developed
that comparatively little looting has
been done. and where things have
been taken or trunks broken into. res.
toFation has been enforced i'm most
cases. The sufferers have been re-
markedly free from robbery of any
kind
Plantation Damage Heavy.
Exact estimate Of the damage done
to the. Maui plantations is impossible
at this time. No figures have yet
been given out that will adequately
cover the situation Waikiki Sugar
Company and the Hawaiian CONNER
cial suffered more than did any OF the
other companies Large tracts OF
the Kihei division are injured. and
fumes are down.
The Waikiki Sugar Company lost
large number Of houses. The esti
mate is placed as high as 80 buildings
of various kinds. The growing as
well as the mature cane suffered Sc
verely in large tracts. and the fumes
and bitches were in many places abb
solutely beyond recognition. A large
amount of railroad track on all the
plantations was destroyed, or the
roadbeds washed out. Telephone and
electric light service as well as the
water systems in all parts of Maui
were severely crippled Fortunately
no fires broke out. otherwise large
sections OF thiekly settled portions of
Maui might have been destroyed
without any opportunity Of saving
anything.
Reservoirs, as far as is known, were
unhurt except for the $4,000, 000-gal-
Ion reservoir of the Wailuku Sugar
Company. between Waikapu and Ma
alea bay.
Highways Badly Torn Up.
Damage to the Maui highways has
been great. No one expected that it
would be possible to get through by
carriage or automobile to Lahaina for
at least two weeks. Wailuku Sugar
Company furnished the county with
between 80 and 200 men and large
numbers of men were also supplied
by Pioneer Mill Company and other
plantations, . The result has astonish.
ed all Maui for yesterday it was pos
sible by careful driving to get an au-
tomobile from the Wailuku side with
in 20 feet of a machine from the La.
hama side. and today by 6 o'clock
County Engineer Cox is confident that
light cars can get through, provided
they make the attempt before night
fall The road is absolutely unsafe
by dark and will be for some time.
1t will, of course, take weeks to
get the Pail road in condition such
as it was before the storm for in many
places the landslides are wide and
have cut deeply into the mountain
road. The heavy cement bridge at
Olowalu is completely gone and new
structure will have to be built there.
The river cut path twice the width
of the old channel Other Had places
in the road can be repaired more
easily.
Waikapu Bridge Saved.
The bridge at Waikapu fortunately
was saved The stream took another
course and raced down the road for
a distance of 400 yards. A curious
sight was to be witnessed at several
points on the Lahaina- Waikiki road.
In some places sea fish of various
kinds were found. Elsewhere the
fresh water fish were lying on the
road. Piles of stones in long stretch.
es completely covered the highway.
Elsewhere the macadam was left six
feet in the air while all the support.
ing banks were washed away. Debris
was seen six and 10 feet above the
normal beds of the streams. and gulch-
es usually dry as a bone were raging
torrents.
Six bad breaks have occurred In
the .Kula pipe and 10 bridges are down
in the Kula region The scarcity oil
men in Kula win make long delay
in getting these repairs made.
Only few breaks in the bitches
bringing water from Nahiku to the H.
C. & 8. Co. and Maui Agricultural
Company have been reported and
aside from the damage done by fall.
ing trees caused by the terrific wind
there is nothing serious
Hama Had High Wind
No lives are reported as lost out.
side the Waikiki district At Hama
much damage was done by falling
trees and by the wind which is report.
ed as having had velocity of 80
miles an hour. The guest cottage at
Manager Chalmers house was badly
injured by the fall or one of the big
trees in the yardE The telephone sys-
tenn on that side of Maui is demolish.
ed.
Kahului has been practically under
water for several days Large alga-
roba trees have been lying across the
roads In all directions from the sea-
port town.
A panic occurred in Kahului when
it was reported that a tidal wave was
the town Such had oc-
Cured years ago, when the lagoon
was formed. Manager D. J. Walsh of
the Kahului Store had been speaking
of IL In was suddenly discovered that