The record-union., 1898-09-24
Terrible Havoc on the Islands of ST. Vim
cent, St. Lucia and Barbados.
Three Hundred Lives Lost at ST.
Vincent, Not Counting the Fa-
talities Suffered Through the
Destruction of Shipping
Thousands of Houses Demol-
ished.

KINGSTON (Jamaica), Sept. %
Mail advices which reached here to-
day brought melancholy relief to the
suspense regarding the full extent of
| the hurricane disaster at the islands Of
st. Vincent, st. Lucia and Barbados,
showing that the first accounts were
not exaggerated. At st. Vincent
| about 800 lives have been lost, not
counting the loss of life suffered
through the destruction of shipping.
| The coast is strewn with the wreck
of vessels. many of which were from
Barbados.
The storm ragged from 10 o'clock in
the morning of September 11th until l
o clock in the afternoon completely
Wrecking the island. AT the Capital,
Kingston, fully 200 houses were de-
molished, while the suburbs, CoXheath
and Monte Pello, We're obliterated.
Among the principal buildings de-
stroyed are the Anglican and Catholic
Churches, the fine new hospital and
Fort Charlotte. All the other public
buildings We're more or less injured
Cloudbursts from the mountains
swept much Of the ruins in the sea. as
we'll as several dead and injured per-
sens.
Throughout the island the destruc-
ton was on wholesale scale. not only
the estates and buildings being razed,
but cultivation being obIiterated.
The following towns and villages
were destroyed Rose Place, Grand
| Sable, Arnosvale, Mount Pleasant,
Argyll, Wallilabo. Barrouallio. Layon
and Buccament, and the second city,
Georgetown, was considerably dam
aged. No approximate estimate of the
pecuniary damage done has been re-
ported, but the island is practically
ruined.
st. Lucia suffered mostly from rain
and landslides, the deluge lasting ten
hours. Cul de Sac and Rousseau VAL
leys, the centers of the cane and cocoa
nut valley, were converted into lakes
and partly filled with debris from the
mountains, which ruined the crops,
while many plantations elsewhere were
wrecked.
Serious damage was sustained at
Mormetabo, which precipitated an
avalanche three miles long. covering
the valley to the width of a mile and
over. covering Ruby and couple of
other islands. Several other slides
partly destroyed the Dramond and San
Jacques plantations
The city of Castries suffered some
what, chiefly from a tidal wave which
swept over half the town and wrecked
d portion of the bay street. Thirteen
lives were lost. The full extent of the
damage has not yet been computed.
but it is incomparably less than at ST.
Vincent.
Ihe hurricane struck the island of
Barbados on the night of the 10th.
completely Wrecking that fiat, exposed
island, and sweeping away 10000
houses, while damaging thousands
more. 1t left three-quarters of the
inhabitants homeless. Over 1000 peo-
pie We're killed so far as known. The
city of Bridgeton was partly DESTROYED.
and the suburbs st. Michael and Belle
Vile 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 provis-
ION grounds on which the population
depended. While all the parishes suf-
1ered, the greatest distress is in st.
Michael, 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
suffered considerably, the cane has not
peen totally ruined, as first reported.
the damage not exceeding one-fifth OF
the cane.
The total estimated damage. besides
the loss on the cane crop and proyis-
ions, is about $1,50O,O00 at Barbados.