Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-20
Storm Puts Str Maui On Rocks; Honolulu Damage Huge
CITY COUNTS UP
ITSSTORM LOSSES
Streets and Roads Are Badly
Washed; Private Property
is Badly Damaged

from noon yeotefod9 70 tntS MORN
ing 1898 inches. These figures are
more than two and one half times the
previous 2+hour rainfall record in the
history Of the weather bureau.
Another rain record which went BY
the board, according {, . late report
from the weztatr bursau, is that for
an hour, the new record being 2:Ge
inches. II occurred between 3:47 and
4:f7 yesterdag afternoon The form.
e. reserS YVES i.e4 riches.
Damage to streets was estimated
this morning by City Engineer Collins
at $4,000. This Was before he had
been over tire entire city and before
ne had reports from the other side Of
the Island.
The road between kancohe and He
Ella has been largely washed out which
will prevent round.thelsiand trips uH-
ell u can &c repaired.
Traffic on the Oahu Railway was
suspended this morning and force
Of zoo men put to work to make re-
pairs which We're completed so that
operations were resumed this after.
noon.
Houses have been badly damaged In
many parts Of the city. In some In
stances swept off their foundations.
Streets ran like rivers yesterday
afternoon and last night and street
railway service was badly disturbed
but not discontinued.
Private property losses In addition
to houses washed away and otherwise
damaged consist Of grounds badly
washed and plants and shrubs and
even trees washed out. Such reports
are from all parts Of the city and dam
age estimates cannot be accurately OBJ
tanned.
Men, women and children were fish
Ing With bare hands In some Of the
city streets In the Waikiki section.
kapiolsni Park looked Ike = great
lake with trees growing In II. Jap
snese sampans broke away from their
mornings and for several hours yes
terday afternoon vessels IN the harbor
were engaged In picking them up.
Reports Of damages from all parts
Of Oahu continue coming In this after.
noon.
So far a. can be learned, there has
been no loss Of life and no serious
bodily injury. !.
Honolulu is engaged In cleaning up
after the rain this afternoon and in
estimating damage done to public and
to private property and to make hur-
ried repairs.
The storm Of yesterday has left q
rainfall record far ahead of anything
IN the history of the weather bureau.
What the damage viii prove TO have
been Is uncertain but il would appear
that to roads and streets alone 1t may
run more than 100000. To this must
be added losses to private property.
Despite Inconvenience, people yes
friday took the storm cheerfully. They
waded TO and from street cars, stopped
homeward. dashed about in splashing
automobiles, sometimes were stalled
in the flood. but they maintained their
good nature.
Hound-lsland Trips Off
One OF the late developments from
the storm Is that tourists as well as
residents are affected by the storm as
is shown in report from Koolaupoko
district which says that the belt road
there for q distance Of over 100 feet
has been entirely destroyed not only
making ii impossible for automobiles
but also difficult for pedestrians to
travel This means that, until the road
is repaired, round-the-island trips will
be out of the question
The place where the road has been
washed out Is between Kaneohe and
Heeias Trips, therefore, may be made
to the coral gardens. The culvert near
H. G. Adams property, which was con-
siderably undermined during the last
storm, has been washed away.
According to the road department
today, II win probably take at least
two weeks and maybe longer to repair
the belt road In order that automobiles
may 60 over II and continue around
the island
Appropriations for emergency re-
pairs to streets and roads in the city
and outside district will probably be
asked for at the meeting of the board
of supervisors tonight
Other Departments Suffer
The water and sewer departments
also felt the effect of the storm in
various places about the city where
service pipes were broken and sever
pipes were stopped up by the heavy
rains.
Several service pipes which cross
the Makiki stream by Kalakaua ave-
nue. were broken by the big boulders
carried down stream by water and
also the tour1inch pipe line from Her
ring Valley. No great trouble was
caused by the breaking of these pipes.
The rainfall at Luakaha was 1914
Dam No. 4, Nuuanu Valley, rose nine
feet or 145,000,0 900 gallons. The dam