Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-09-24
EFFECTS OF THE HURRICANE.
AbOu, Three Hundred Lives los, a, st. Vim
cent Alone.
At narbadoes 100 Killed. and Damage
Placed at si.soo.ooo -ic.ooo Houses
swept Away.

Kingston. Jamaica, sept 2s.-Mail
sdvices whish reached here today.
brough, melancholy relief 10 the sus-
pense regarding the full extent Of the
hurricane disaster az the Island OF 81.
Vincent. -. Lucia and barbados,
showing that the frst accounts were
moi exaggerated. A. s. Vincent about
800 lives were i0si. not couriing inc
loa Of life suffered through the de-
siructlen OF shipping. The coast Is
strcwn win the wrecks u vessels
many q which were from Barbados.
The storm ragged from 10 O'Clock In
the morning sunday. September iiih.
unkii o'clock In The afternoon. com
pctciy wneckng the ISLAND. ~ the
cupital. KlnrsiyNn. fully 200 houses
were Demolished. while the suburbs
Coxhcath and Monte Bcllo, were obllt-
GRATED. Among the PRINCIPAL gulldings
destroyed are the Anglican and Catho.
lie churches. the fine new hosplih ani
Fort Charlotte. Al the other public
buildings were uIore or less Injured.
cio,riburuts from the inouniains SWEPT
much u the ruins into The SEA. % well
a. several dead and injured persons.
Throughout the island the dcstruc-
ton was on "a Wholesale ncnle, not only
the estates and buildings being RACED,
bu, cultivation oblitcrattd. The fel-
lowing towns and villages wcrc de-
rtroyrd. Rose Place orand sable.
Arn0syuie. Mount Pleasant, Argyle.
Wanliaiso. Bhrwuaillo, Layun and
Iluccamont, and the eecorl CITY,
Georgetown. was considerably dam.
aged. No Approximate estimate of the
pocunsary damage dpnc has been re-
ported. but the I siand Is practically
81 Lucia suffered mostly from rain
and inn1Aidea. the dcluge hating ten
houru. Cul de Sac and Rousseau va-
Ieyn, the centors OF the cane and CO.
coanut valley, were converted into
lakes and partly fiiied with debris from
the mountains, which ruined INC etops,
while many plantations elsewhere were
wrecked. SERIOUS damage was sus-
tainrd at Mormctabo, which precipl.
tnted an avalanche three miles long,
covering the valley To the width OF a
mile ana overwhelming Rudy and a
couple OF other islands. Similar avail
anches partly destroyed the Dromand.
Pear ard san Jacques plantations.
The city Of Carlrios suffered npfncNhri.
ctileny from a tidai wave, which swept
over half the town ard wrecked a por-
ton o. the bay street. Thirteen lives
were lost Tho full extern u ne dam.
age has not yet been computed. bu, v
IL incomIarably les tnan at ~ VIM
cent.
The hurricane ctrucif re island %
Bardadoea on tho nirht OF me ioth
Inst, completely wrccking that nat. cN-
posed island. and sweeping away 10000
houses. while 0imag1ng thousands
more.
II isft threc-quaricrs Of the inhaN-
tanta homeless. over 100 people were
killed ~ far na known The city %
nrldgUon wns partly destroyed AMI
the suburbs. ~ Michael and lieilcville.
were entirely demolished. All the ship
ping was wrecked or Blown out 10 sea.
In the country the de-1lation 10 awful.
owing to the destruction Of the prVvi-
sion grounds on which shc population
depended.
While all me parishes suffered, ths
creates, distress ~ IN ~ Mlchaelr
christ church ana H. Phiiip. All tn
sugar estates are damaged and many
81 them are completely wrecked. Bu
whlir the cultivation of cane has sur
fcrad considerably. tho cane has moi
been totally ruined. as first reporiei
the slmage not exceeding one-nrih OF
the cane. The total estimated damag,
Dcnldra the loss from The cane crup and
provisions Is about u.boO,0oo at Darba-
doca