The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-12-13
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Kingston. Jamaica Burned
laneYunk WILLS.

Philadelphia, 12-The ENTERPRISE
cotton mills at Manayunk, owned
by Samuel S. Kelley, and occupied
by Joseph Adams, cotton yarns; j.
Kelley 81 Withere, cotton spinners;
j. Lord 81 Conner, carpet yarns,
and John Wild & Bro. carpet yarns,
was totally destroyed by ire this
afternoon. Loss, $4,000 on build
ing, 100000 on stock and machinery.
The fire broke out on the fourth
floor. About 100 operatives were at
work. Those OF the fifth floor
were exposed to the most danger,
as there were no fire escapes.
The only means that many had to
AVOID destruction by ire was to use
the outside hosting rope, which
reached only to the second floor.
All coming down this had
to fall from the second floor, to
the ground. Several were burned
by the flames belching out of the
windows. Others jumped from the
windows. Sixteen were injured,
some by falling, others by burns
about the face and body. Only one,
Mary OConnor, aged fourteen, is
believed to be fatally injured; Robt.
Marsh, aged nineteen, had - lac
Grated by having it caught ina hook
at the end Of the rope wiIile de-
scending. The list of injured in
cludes VIM. Dempey, aged 10; Wal
ter Trait, aged IS; James Wiley,
aged Is; Maggie Quinn, aged IS;
Mary E. Hoffman, aged IS; Susan
Hoffman, aged 20; VIM. Everman,
aged 50; VIM. Everman, jr., aged
IS; VIM. Keen, aged II; Jas. Con-
nor, aged 81; Thos. Parnell, aged
%; Jno. Kelly, aged 40; Jno. Dow
min, aged so; the engineer and a girl
named Hoops.
New York, 12.-The following
dispatch was received from Jamaica
to-day: The business quarter of
Kingston burned yesterday; loss,
100000. Hundreds are homeless
Wharves, warehouses, stores, banks
and supplies all gone. Food sup
plies needed. Charitable relief
should be sent to W. Il. AZbill. Sec
rotary Kingston charity Organiza-
ton.
New York, 12.-The Sun has the
following additional details Of the
Kingston, Jamaica. FIRE: Geo. p.
Forwood. agent of the Atlas line of
steamers, II ceived additional par
ticulars of the fire by cable last
evening. He said the fire originated
near the water front. The sea
breeze that prevailed during the
evening famed the flames inland.
The fire extended about one and
one-half miles along the water
front, from the wharf of the Royal
Mail S. SEQ. to the Atlas line. The
wharf with the buildings. were
one and two stories high and made
of wood. There was no fire depart
ment and negro natives who COM
pose a great part of the population
were probably too much frightened
or too lazy to combat the fire. For
wood showed the following dispatch
from Mcdowell 81 Hankey, agents
of the Atlas line in Kingston: Half
the city is burned. McDOWell's
Office is destroyed, but our wharves
are saved Richard Sanderson,
agent Of the Wilson Steamship
Company, one of whose boats,
the BeliSee, phys between New
York and Jamaica, said he
thought the fire Godsend to
Kingston. 1t was a miserable town,
he continued, filed principally with
Shiftless negroes. Their wives do
all the work, while they attend to
the home consumption of rum. We
have to depend entirely upon the
women for eoaling cur steamers,
If the fire has destroyed the busi-
ness portion of the city, all the
government buildings are gone.
All the buildings were frame sUruc-
lures, one or two stories high. The
government officials did not reside
in town, SO suppose they have not
lost much.