, 1898-11-26

'4h ShNA AbS AONAA
they we've paItIy nnroofed. we're illsd rs
ohce. anti lie got the stores open for biscuits
IN barrels Tor them. They came ~ with the
same awful tales. aud then all last night it
deIuged, aud whit the wind had not des-
tr"yed the raius washed away. We hardly
sic t, but I think to-day has been worse.
Even now we have no news beyond 'Ehr-
ron"llls aud Sans Soucis; in tue one three
houses are standing, Csllidua four houses
lctt; Prosl"c leveIled to the g.ound; all
the works, as far as We know, on all Ghe
estates gone Hbso uteIy, and lives evsryw here;
we III" quite unable to guess how many. II.
began his lSbour a. Z u. III. and cot home at
: pm. | rode down for four or Ave hours
as beat | could, and We visited all the refugees
and talked to hRndredS Of poor souls. .lhty
have escaped With their lives only: in most
cases with only the wet ragA they are
wearing. There are many Of them out and
mangIed rs if 10y shells. 1t is like an a.ful
battlefield. tho ll"useS all unroofed,. all The.
trees umlimbel or dow T.. l should tIink
sV houses in all tl"t 1--we not suffered. I
fit yesterday Gcd had forgotten to be
gracious, in spite f His mercy to just ouY-
selves. but | can't tell you. the q.
misery of it. II. arrange for two meals q
day to be served at the refugees to oil corners,
30 they can't sturve; and all day it was u
long procession from the country Of poor
naked creatures. drenched, injured, and
heart-broken, stretchers with dead people.
Tn hospital WIS partly destroyed and as
the doctor said, it is a ch0Inel house.' |
went there alone and spike TO nearly all,
but | was utterly overcome by it; one could.
not help crying 50, and it made 'One deadly
sick. The doctors Md all the clergy and
most of the officials an4, above all, Fl.
have risen sFlendilly 10 the emergency. All
that can be done he Will do, but it isAwful
work for one man. It's nd@exaggerntion to-
say the whole island is homtress-ona dares =
not look ahead. 1t seems like the end. Of ell
things. l hope Sir Alfred MnIcney will
come up on Friday, bat our telegraph Is bro
ken and we don't even know If other
islands suffered. They say we were uu-
doubtedly In the centre OF it. The
people are 50 helpless 100; there they
were sitting in he cathedral in one swamp,
till / got a broom myself and then, for very
shame, they all began to help me-. All ] can
~ is to run up clothes, and ! have got o NUM-
Der of women to work. Tonight we have
over 80 black guests; Que poor old sOul |
met crying in the road, hel husband buried
under one house, her s III under another, and
40 one would help to ding lie bodies out,
somewhere in the Buc amrnt Valley. We
have two deads, SHE told me. She ia here
HON' n ANU ~ i - bIOu' "a. COOAeV ~
dinners quite quietly for them. Then we have
two poor Mics D. who went through awful
horrors yesterday, and poor Mrs. 7. who
was alone with her baby at the Fort'in a
bath all yesterday, her husbaad in tho Gags
expected back, when the gale came. She hus
lost every garment, even her wedding ring,
and is rugged out in my things. Mr.. P. got
up safe-an awful passage. / darcsay we
shall have many more to-mOgrow. The SIS
were ut Prospect and escaped by q miracle;
the whole house felRin, even into the CELLAR
where they were, They all lfoked likespeb-'
pie who had Leen dead a week. think We
all do. l can't fancy ever sleeping again
Oh, these horrors ave o,ueF cruel. | cant
describe it, no one cnn%ee it in their minds.
They mu.t help us from home. Here We
have 10000 poor souls, who have lost their
all, on. our lIands-for it comes TO that, aud
the plnce WINS bankrupt before. 1 suppose
H.wlII have gangs all over the cOuntry cle"r-
ing the roads. bat I fancy the estates are
done for LOW. They MI say thisi is far the
worst and longest hurricane known here
even worse than The '32 one. No destruction
could be mo- ecomplete. What we suffered our
selves villa nothing compared to what nearly
everyone else did. They say tIIee big ships
are ashore to windwnrd. .......... | said
goodbye TO you all in my heart that day.
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