Evening star., 1946-04-02

extensive damage and no loss of
life in the Pacific Northwest States.
In sheltered Honolulu. on the
leeWard side of Oahu Island. Army
Navy, territorial and Federal relief
agencies modified hastily for one
of the greatest disaster-relief jobs
in Hawaiian history
The Army opened a recreation
camp to 5000 homeless and a fleet
of transport and bomber planes
was shutting medicines and foods
to hard-hit Hilo. ........,..
Honolulu's leeward location shell
tered the luxury hotels of Waikiki
Beach and left naval shipping in
landlocked Pearl Harbor undamaeed
HilO a Scene of Horror.
Hilo, exposed to the full force of
the waves, was scene of horror
Weeping friends and relatives waited
on high ground as troops in the
wrecked waterfront recovered bodies
Buildings were crushed and ripped
apart, huge gaps were pushed
through thick concrete walls. and
there was sprawling litter of
what had been railroad cars. auto
mobiles, trucks, buildings and boats
Army patrols guarded against
looting, although martial law had
not been declared
A chance telephone call at 6 m.
aroused Dan Nathaniel. jr.. who
then got one of the clearest views
of the Hilo disaster. He noticed
that the sea had receded unbeliev-
ably, leaving the ocean bed in front
OF his cottage almost dry.
Then it came, in nine waves. 1
ran out, and it caught me. Waves
were over the railroad bridge, so
feet above the normal streambed" :"
Two Ships Caught by Waves.
Tossed on the raging crests, he
grasped store marquee and man
aged to cling there until the waters
receded.
Two ships were caught by the
giant waves in Hilo's harbor. The
anchor cable snapped Immediately
on the freighter William B. Hoxie,
and the vessel was tossed up on the
beach. The Brigham Victory man.
aged to reach the open sea and ride
out the waves safely.
Loss of Hilo's warehouse district
cost the city most of its food supply
Army headquarters in Honolulu was
asked for thousands of cases of bags
of staples
Rescue efforts were hampered by
battered communications lines, and
a truck with loudspeaker cruised
the area. asking that names of the
missing be telephoned to police
headquarters to facilitate the search
Three Teachers Missing.
c. r. Ferdun. school principal at
Laupahoehoe, Is miles northwest
of Hilo, said the many missing
there included three American
teachers.
He named them as Faye Johnson,
Route 2, Vinton, Va: Dorothy
Drake, Columbus, Ohio, and Helen
Kingseed, Sidney. Ohio
Cottages in which they lived
were swept to sea or hurled into
piles of debris inland.
On Oahu, two Navy men swept
to sea from Kaneohe naval air
station were rescued. Two Army
men reported missing off Koko
Head were washed ashore on logs.
Rushed to hospital, they were re-
ported in serious condition.
OF Oahu's dead, three were in
fants, l, 2 and years old, who
drowned in their cribs. Another
was 99-year-old woman. Four
bodies were found on a beach road.
Like War Refugees"
Refugees by the hundreds poured
into camps set up on Oahu and
Hawaii by the Army on orders of
Maj. Gen. George F. Moore. COM
manding general of the Pacific
theater. They trudged along roads
with meager. salvaged belongings
tied in bundles or piled onto carts
or automobiles.
1T looks like refugees from a war
zone said 1t. Jack Fox, New York,
1T was terrible sight 1t reminded
me of Cape Cod after the 1914 hur-
ricane"
More than 1900 civilians found