New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-24
THE STORM-SWEPT ISLANDS.
APPALLING EXTENT OF THE DlSASlhH
DUE TO THE HURRICANE.

ST VINCENT AND BARBADOS PRACTICALLY
Rr1NpD-THE DAMAGE IN ST. LUCIA NOT so
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF LIVES LOST
Kingston. Jamaica, Sept. 3.-Mail adVices
which reached here to-day brought meiahcho'!
relief % the suspense experienced resf roine the
full extent OF the hurricane disaster IN the ISL
ands OF st. Vincent. st. Lucia and feroauoes
The DISPATCHES show that the first accounts were
not exaggerated, although based on inierehoe'
The cable station n. St Vincent was submerged
cutting of ST. Vincent and Barbadocs lroih co''''
munication with the other Islands
At ST. Vincent about three hundred lives nave
been lost. not counting the loss OF life sutereo
through the destruction OF shipping. Tne coast
Is strewn with the wrecks or vessels many Vi
which were from Barbados.
The storm ragged from 10 o'clock in the morn
ing OF Sunday. September II. until O'CLOCK IN
the afternoon completely wrecking the Island
At the capital Kingston fully two hundred
bousos vore demolished while the suburbs COX
heath and Nontebello were ohliterated Among
the principal buildings destroyed were the
Anglican and Catholic churches. the fine new
hosnital and Fort Charlotte. All the other pun
lie buildings we're more or less Injured. Clouu-
bursts from the mountains swept much OF 'hc
ruins into the sea- including several DEAD anu
injured persons
Throughout the island the destruction was on
n vast scale nearly all the estates and pu'lui"S'
being razed. and cultivation being oo''e'a'e''
The following towns or villages were destroyer
Roseplace Grandcsabe. Arnosvale MOUNT
Pleasant, Argyle. Wallabo. Barrouallie Layoh
and Ruccament and the second city deoree
town. was considerably damaged. No approx
n,ate estIn,ate Of the damage done has been
reached but the Island IS practically ruined.
81 Iucia suffered most from rain and land
slides the deluge lasting ten hours Cul de sac
and Rosseau valleys the centres or the cane
and cocoa cultivation. were converted into iaKes
and partly filed with debris from the noun
tains which ruined the crops. Many plaI''a
,,ons elsewhere were wrecked Serious damage
was sustained at Mornetabao, when precIpi'
,a,od an avalanche three miles long covering
tho valley to the width Of mile, ana over
whelming Ruby and n couple OF other estates
Similar avalanches partly destroyed the INA
mond. Pearl and san Jacques cocoa plantations
Tho CITY OF Castrlca suffered somewhat. chiefly
from n tidal wave, which swept over haf the
town and wrecked part OF Bayst Thirteen
uves were lost, Tho damage is ircomparabIy
less than a, 81. Vincent.
Tho hurricane struck the Barbados on the
right 81 September 10. completely wrecklng that
fat. exposed island. sweeping away ten thousand
bousos and damaging thousands more lhIS
left ,hree-quarters " the inhabitants hone'esS'
over one hundred persons we're killed.. so Iai i ds
&c known The city OF Bridgetown was parualy
DESTROYED and the suburbs. St Mlchael anu anu
Bellevillc were demolished All ,h' Sn'Pl,,,'
vas wrecked or blown out 10 sea. In the c"u"-
trv the desolation is awful owing 10 the de-
struction ~ the provision grounds on when 'he
population depended ,oa,
While all the parishes suffered, the greatest %.
distress is in St. Michael. Chrstchurch ana -,
phuin an the sugar estates are damaged, ana
MANY - them are completely wrecked pu'
wbiIn tho cultivation Of cane has suffered con
etJeraiIv the cane has not been totally ruln"d'
as was AZ nrst reported. The damage does n9'
exceed ono-nrth 0f The cane. IN" toth 'St-
,,oted damage besides the loss from the cafle
cron and provisions. is about 81 5000" at Bar
BADGES ,, 49,. ,,o
Among tho Incidents A. Barbados was tne
miraculous escape ~ Governor Hay ana mr.
son from building which collapsed buryinE
,hern In the ruins They escaped win inslshin-
cant bruises The house was the Ciovcrno, =
temporary residence while the bo''r""V"'
palaca WAS being required