The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-15


 rendered homeless.
 St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, Sept. 14-According to the latest re- ports from St. Lucia, the hurricane which broke upon the island on Sunday night developed almost unprecedented violence, being accompanied by a tidal wave and tremendous rains. Numer- ous landslides were caused, and many houses, bridges and cocoa estates have been destroyed At least twelve lives have been lost Guadeloupe, the French island in the Leeward group, has expe- rienced very heavy weather. Nineteen deaths are reported and there have been destructive landslides.
 A boat from the Island of St. Vincent, a hundred miles west of Barbados, ar
  and reports that St. Vincent has expe- rienced the most violent and destructive cyclone ever known there. Kingston, the capital of St. Vincent, is totally de- stroyed It is estimated that three hundred lives have been lost in that isl- and and that twenty thousand people are homeless. The bodies of the dead are being buried in trenches. Thou sands are starving or being fed at the public expense.
 The amount of property destroyed in St. Vincent cannot yet be estimated. Every small house is down and many large ones have been destroyed. The demolished buildings include churches, stores and almost all the estate build- ings. Three large ships are ashore on the Windward coast, and many smaller vessels are stranded. No information is obtainable here as to the results of the threatened hurricane of Sunday night last. Communication is cut off, and the worst is feared.
 Hurricanes are the grand scourge of Barbados In 17S0 one of them destroy ed 4,326 persons and property valued at G1.32O564 sterling; and in 1881, another destroyed 1,591 persons and property valued at G1602,S00 sterling. Of the former of these the violence appears to have surpassed all belief-the wind and the waves between them having carried a 12-pounder gun a distance of 140 yards.
 Saint Vincent, British island of the West Indies belongs to the WlndWard group and lies about twenty-e1ght miles south of St. Lucia, and one hundred miles west of Barbadoes. Its latitude is 1S degree 13 minutes north; longitude 61 degrees 15 minutes west. It Is elgh- teen and one-half miles long, eleven nils broad, has an area of 147 square miles. and contained December, 1881, 4O.548 inhabitants of whom few were white, about a fifth part were colored, and all the rest black. A chain of mountains traverses the island from north to south and throws out lateral branches, between which are ravines, which widen into valleys as they ap- proach the seashore. Evidences of VOL canic action are everywhere visible on the island-strata are upheaved and disturbed, and huge masses of rock have been displaced. In the interior is A volcanic mountain, 5000 feet high, the crater of which is half a mile in diameter. The climate is hot, the tenn Derature ranging from 75 to 87 degrees. The annual rainfall is about 76 inches. No valuable minerals have yet been discovered. The chief products are sugar, arrowroot, rum, cotton, and mo- lasses; the value of the exports in 1880 was 947-that of imports, chiefly linen, cotton, and wooden manufactures, nanures, flour and yheat, fish, dried or ealted. pork, salted or cured, hardware and cutlery, leather and leather manu- factures, timber, butter, and mules, was e15O. $50 Nearly 700 vessels enter and clear the ports annually. Religion and morality are at low ebb. There are shove thirty schools, attended by over 9O0O children. The revenue, derived chiefly from export duties, was in 1880,