The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-24
EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE
Destruction Wrought by the Hur-
ricane in the West Indies.
FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE
Two Hundred Houses Were Demolished
in Kingston and the Suburbs of That
City We're Obliterated-Coast
Strewn With wreckage.

Kingston. Jamaica, Sept. 23.-Mail
advices which reached here to-day
brought melancholy relief to the sus-
pense regarding the full extent Of he
hurricane disaster at the LANDS Of St
Vincent. st. Lucia and Barbados,
showing tha the first accounts were
not exaggerated. NJ st. Vincent about
500 lives have been lost. not counting
the loss Of life suffered through the de-
struction OF the shipping. The coast is
strewn with the wrecks Of vessels,
many Of which were from Barbados.
The storm ragged from 10 o'clock in
the morning Sunday. Sept. II, until 2
o'clock in the afternoon, completely
wrecking the island. At the capital.
Kingston. fully 200 houses were demol-
ished. while the suburbs. CoNheath and
Montebello. were obliterated. Among
the principal buildings destroyed are
the Anglican and Catholic churches, the
fine new hospital and Fort Charlotte.
All the other public buildings were
more or less injured.
~Cloudbursts from the mountains
swept much Of the ruins I'm the sea, as
well as several dead and injured per
sons. Throughout the island the de-
struction was on a wholesale scale. not
only the estates and buildings being
RACED. but cultivation being obliter-
ated.
The following towns and villages
were destroyed: Rose Place. Grand
Sable. Arnosvale, Mount Pleasant,
Argyle. Wallilabo. B~arrouaIlio, Layon
and Bucamet and the second city,
Georgetown. was considerably dam
aged.
No approximate estimate Of the pc
cuniary damage don has been reported,
but the island IS practically ruined. st.
= -. -..gg.-.9 v,.HfHNH from rain and
IandsIides, the deluEe lasting 10 hours.
Cul de sac and Rousseau valleys. the
centers Of the cane and cocoauut valley,
were converted INTO lakes and partly
filed with debris from the mountains,
which ruined the crops. while many
plantations elsewhere were wrecked.
Serious damage was sustained at Nor
metabo, which preCipitatod an ava
lanche three miles long, covering the
valley 10 the width of a mile and over
I vhelming Ruby and a couple of other
T islands. Similar a~valanches partly de-
stroyed the Dramond. Pearl and San
Jacques plantations. h city OF cas-
tries suffered somewhat. chiefly from a
tida wave. which swept over half the
town and wrecked a portion of the bay
street.
Thirteen lives were lost. The fun ex-
tent Of the damage has not yet been
computed, but It is i~ncomparably less
than at st. Vincent. The hurricane
struck the island of Barbados on the
night OF the 10th inst, completely
wreckinE that nat. exposed island, and
sweeping away 10000 houses. while
damaging thousands more. II left
threc-quarters Of the inhabitants home
less. over 100 people were killed, so far
as known. The city Of Bridgctun was
partly destroyed and the suburbs, st.
Michael and Bclleville, were entirely
demolished. All the shipping was
wrecked or blown out To sea. In the
country the desolation Is awful, owing
to the destruction Of the provision
grounds on which the population de-
pended.
While all the parishes suffered the
greatest distress Is i'm st. MiChaels,
Christ Church and st. Philip. All the
sugar estates are damaged and many
Of them are completely wrecked. But,
while the cultivation Of cane has sut-
fercd considerably. the cane has not
been totally ruined, as first reported,
the damage not exceeding one-fifth Of
the cane. The total estimated damage,
besides the loss from the zane crop and
provisions, is about 81 500, 900 at Barba-