Workers continued today cleaning up debris at the Manoa Valley Inn. Yesterday's earthquake caused the stone chimney to crumble and damaged the historic home. Bruce Asato/The Honolulu Advertiser

"I heard a huge rumble and the house shake," said Wery, who has owned the home for eight years. "Then I heard a big boom and all this dust went flying. It was like a war out there."

It was the second earthquake, a magnitude 6, that brought the nearly 100-year-old chimney to the ground, smashing into the home's underground water main, Wery said. The first earthquake, a magnitude 6.7, just rattled the house.

A pile of rocks and torn shards of wood were all that remained of the lava rock chimney today as workers hefted rocks and slabs of cement off the water pipes damaged in Sunday's earthquakes. Silver tarps were being nailed into the gaping hole at the top of the three-story home at 2001 Vancouver Drive.

Wery's home is one of two reports of property damage on O'ahu, said John Cummings, O'ahu Civil Defense public information officer. The other incident was a sink hole reported on private property. Civil Defense officials haven't inspected that site yet because the owner preferred to work through his insurance carrier, Cummings said.

Wery, who operates the home as a bed-and-breakfast called the Manoa Valley Inn, had guests staying in the home Sunday morning, and some were in bedrooms whose windows were next to the fireplace chimney. Her bedroom is on the first floor where the fireplace is. Cracks snake around the rocks on the fireplace face and a gaping hole is inside the chimney opens up to the outside.

"I was in such shock, I just couldn't move," Wery said. "One couple, guests in an upstairs room, came running outside to see what was the matter without their clothes."

The home, built in 1915 by a Honolulu businessman was renovated by Crazy Shirts founder Rick Ralston in the 1980s and 1990s, Wery said. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the John Guild House.