The New York herald., 1872-08-19

Another Great Fire in Kingston-e2o, 900 WORTH
Of Property Destroyed Military Murder
Press Telegrams-Extension Of Rail-
road Communication Protection
Of American Underwriters.


! Kingston has again suffered by fire. At about
seven O'Clock on Saturday evening, the Sd inst, hd
alarm was given and simultaneously flames were
seen issuing from the hardware store OF Arnold
Malabre b Co., in Port Royal street. There wa9
every appearance Of the fire having been
burning In the interior OF the building
several hours before. The large quantity
Of innammable material which formed the princN
pal portion Of Messrs. Malabies stock such as tart
oil, paints &C., would have rendered 1t dinicula
under any circumstances to put out the fire; bud
the difficulty was greatly increased by the ABSENCE
OF those appliances which in all civilized countriea
are always kept ready at hand to meet such an
emergency. The fire brigade was nowhere, the fire.
engines would not work and there was no water I'd
be obtained from the government Water Works4
Never was heavily taxed community left in sd
helpless and unprotected q condition as this was
on that occasion.
DRINK AND RIOT.
The women among the aborlng people worked
hard and did all they could to render aid, but tho
men Of the same class stood by looking on and exl
claiming, "Let 1t burn. it is the white mans prop-
erty." The services of the military called n
and the black soldiers rendered good aid In pulling
down the burning buildings and preventing the
fire from spreading but in the course OF the night
they gained access to neighbOring wina
and spirit warehouse. where they soou
got themselves UNANIMOUSLY drunk. and, sallyinQ
FORTH they commenced murderous assault upons
the cOnstables, who were as drunk as they weres
and upon all who came within their reach. With
fixed bayonets they chased the people in every DIS
rection For long time they disregarded theik
officers and the bugle call, and continued their
rotous proceedings till the streets adjacent to the
fire were entirely cleared. After some time order
was restored, and they were marched back to camps
MURDER. y
But they had already murdered woman and
| seriously wounded some ten or dozen Otner pcr4
sons, three or four Of whom are not expected to-
| survive.
THE FER rIENp.
All this time the fire continued Its devOurinQ
| progress. The utmost that could be done was td
cOnfne 1t within the block Of buildings in which ID
originated: at THIS was done with much effort. and
the danes died out Now that 1t is all over there H
plenty Of municipal inquiry and great unrolln4
the the next se " viii ind the community quite as un
prepared and the destruction Of property will bd
| as great as ever. =
The loss on this occasion is between s1s,ooo and
nve English companies, does not amount to more
than Ell ,0O0
PREss TELEGRAMs PROPERTY
The agent OF the Associated Press has appeare0
that s law the
esams as may be- by and
from the New York Associated Press. The petitiog
came up for discussion the Governor, who sits at
sSrsy D0aES agreed as srssd'n s the said
ana the arguments b, which i had
and he had reason to think the public were notd
regard to Commercial kilograms he thcgSt
should come with the regularity OF clockwork-
considering their importance to commercial men
and he did not think that could be said Of the way m
eved Il would be ca advisable that the sovernmena mn
should pay for telegrams. political and commercial5
but OF cna they mCsS be S t on Which
with regularity. kilograms Of this descriptionx
being Of service to everybody, and to commercial
| men especially could, he thought, with prOprietN
be paid FOR out OF the general revenues and II that
could be done, and done cheaply, he thought ii
The Hon. Colonial Secretary said after what had,
fallen from the President he thought 1t right I'd
teiegrams in the way suggested in short time.
Here the matter rests.
RAILWAY PROGRESS.
The jamaica Railway Company, backed by q
petition from the Inhabitants OF the southside
parishes of the island, have asked the government
tend the line Of railway from Its present terminus
at Old Harbor to Porus, in Manchester. The SUBJ
ject was referred to q select committee, Of whom
the Governor 0ne The committee reported
most unfavorably to the request, not only ObcctinR
private speculation, sut also ' condemnina % the
present railway as being in Its working most un.
satisfactory TO the public
AMERIoAN uNDERwRITRRs' INTEREST.
At last some action has been taken here to pro,
| tect American underwriters. Some time ago the
| Norwegian bark Annanas Dekke was wrecked on
the Pelican shoals, near Old Harbor, in this islandr
laden with railway iron for New Orleans. The upper
half OF the cargo was saved and brought to Kings.
ton and on two or three surveys It was certified
that the portion OF the cargo In the lower hold
could not be saved, and recommendation was
made that the vessel and cargo should be sold to-
gether as one lot. This was about to be done when
firm here was requested by telegram to-
n tors aOa n
sale. This was done, and q few days after Mr..
Augustus Myers special agent OF the underwriters.
arrived, and confirmed an agreement with Mr. Ast3
from the first that it was practicable, undertook
the task, and nearly all the property has BEEN
safely brought to Kingston. Mr.. Myers will have
the satisfaction OF returning to New York, conf
dent OF having to the fullest protected his constitJ
uents interests and Of having ascertained that
there are men in Jamaica who are careful OF pro3
tecttng even the interests OF underwriters II en-.
trusted to their care.