The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-06-01

Hdniakua, Ain Inferno
of Flame, Sinks With
Loss Of Two Men

WITH loss Of property loss which will run
w the hundreds of thousands the Inter Island Steam Na
the Aisae Channel between Maui and Kahooawe Yesterday
morning shortly after o'clock
The dead are Chief Officer George Nystrom Of lila Guck Ave
nue. Honolulu Ks There thry-seven
vivors including all Of landed Ke
oneo Maui O'Clock yesterday morning hour after
w Explosions il1,sa,5 DROVE CREW OFF
From the discovery the Ere until the sinking Of the vessel
time elapsed the being driven
within few minutes Of the first explosion.
Captain Carl Wichert and his win this morning from
i his having been BY wireless last night to
The Advertiser by its Maui correspondent
The dispatches island Steam Navigation Company
disaster giving fact
that the survivors had landed at Ksoneoos
CARRIED CARGO OF EXPLOSIVES
The Hamana left Honolulu about Ave o'clock Tuesday after
ports Hawaii wh include Laupahoeho
vessel carrying freight only abuay explosives
quantity board when she caught fire yesterday morn
She was of Makena shortly before four O'Clock yesterday morn
that short Of ninesx miles The
until Msens had been passed Chief Officer
before Nysro notified Wichert that the
are forwards and the vessel stopped wieher
NEVER SEEN AGAIN
Leaving Wchert Nystrom marshaed and
went forward 70 direct the fight against the flames He was not
While he was dressing Wehert yesterday Lahaina
explosion blew
ship flames the explosion hurting
throughout parts catching
wiehs went deck without waiting longer The had
been driven back the boats The danger
by explosions gasoline
forward deck Of which scattered the burning fluid broadcast
creating inferno which nothing could live the midst Of
this the crew abandoned the vessel and pulled off
IMPOSSIBLE TO DoANYrHING
impossible to do anything They could not even approach
the ship The found that Nystrom
and Kiki missing Captain Wichert believes that both
explosion if killed outright The former
event meant quick death, in any
The of the FIRE remains complete mystery Captain
The vessels destruction was hasned the master believes by
possibility that hull opened by the first terrific explosion
for she sank within short time after being abandoned.
FIRE SEEN FROM MAIZENA,
The burning ship was sighted almost immediately from the
shore Mrs. Raymond wife Of Doctor Raymond, reporting the
disaster telephone from the Raymond Ranch MAIZENA, The Inter
Island Caudine Mikahaa around
Hamakuas the bottom long before they
reached Honolulu yesterday morning per-
init Marine Superintendent William Mckay the MAnna Kea
out for Lahana o'clock and he the returning Exc
that they this morning Honouu stated Pre
dent Kennedy last night nothing had been heard from them
81 80 fT "a AN oLD-TIME EMPLoYE
George Nystrom Of the three Oldest employees of the
company point Of service having been connected with for
srom Of Gulck Avenue and by his Wallace j. cBob
Ls Of chauGeus He fifty Of and rated
The Harnalua has been in the Inter service for eighteen
months having been purchased from California and her
changed She old, having
been laid down Faavcn California in 1908 She wooden
vessel IFS feet with sSoot beam Her engines rated
for sOhoepowe and she had registered Of 90
The officials Of company would
her probably worth Yesterday but believe that they replace
her at the market price of vessels under hundred thou
sand doars She is insured within the company tWf III
This is the loss the company this the
route having gone on the rocks IF the Kona coast and
having broken The other disaster particularly
much as Il disrupted the passenger schedule and required that
mission The vastly compcaes the freight pobes
Of the company nasmuch the Amua carrying explosives
the entire North Hawaii practically exclusively and
large factor in Hamakua trade Sugar will also