The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-09-30
THE WRECKED ISLANDS.
Awful Destruction of Life and Prop
erty at s.. Vincent, St.
Luci.. and Barbados.
TOWNS AND VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY.
Nor. Tim, Three Hundred Lives Lost ON
st. Vincent Island, Thirteen al 81 Aa-
cha and Hundred at barbados '"e
Coast. strewn with Wreckage and the
Town sites with Rszed Houses

co..t. strewn with Mreckage and the
Town sites with Ksxed Houses
Kingston. Jamaica. Sept. "a Mail
ad,ices which reached here yesterday
brought melancholy relief To the sus'
pense regarding the full extent oil inc
hurricane disaster at the islands of ~.
Vincent. st. Lucia and liarbadoes'
showing that the first accounts WEI.
not exaggerated.
More Than Three Hundred Lives Lost Oh
1T. Vincent Island.
Al 81. Vincent about 300 lives were !
lost. not counting the loss OF life SUI
fered through the destruction OF snip |
ming. The coast j. strewn with the
wrecks OF vessels. many Of which were
from Iiarbadocs
The storm which ragged from !.
o'clock on sunday. September IL. un-
iii o'clock in the afternoon, com
pletely wrecked the island.
Reads Like Fairy Tale of Destruction.
At the capital. Kingston, fully 10Y
houses were demolished: in the sub
urhs. Coxheath and Montebello were
oblitered Among the principal huild-
ings destroyed are the Anglican ahe
Catholic churches. the fine new hos
pital and TT. Charlotte. All the pub
lie buildings were more or less IN
jured.
Cloud-bursts from the mountains
svent much of the ruins. as well a'
several dead and injured. into the sea
Throughout the island the destruc'
ton was on a Wholesale scale. not only
the estates and buildings being razea
but cultivation being obliteraied-
Towns and villages Destroyed.
The following towns and villages
were destroyed: Rose Place. Grand
Sable. Arons,ale. Mount Pleasant, Ar
p,le. Wallilabo. Barrouallie. Layon
Buccament. and the second city.
Georgetown. was considerably dam
aged
No approximate estimate OF the re-
cuniarv damage done has been
reached. but the island is practically
ruined.
On the Island Of ~. Lucia.
ST. Lucia suffered mostly from rain
and landslides. the deluge lasting ten
hours. Cul de sac and Rousseau val
levs. the centers of the cane and cocoa
cultivation. were converted into lakes
and partly filled with debris from the
mountains. which ruined the crops
while many plantations We're wrecked
An Avalanche Three Miles Long and On
Mile Wide.
Serious damage was sustained al
Mormetabao. which prccipitated an av
alanche three miles long. covering the
valley TO the width of a mile and over
whelming Ruby and a couple of other
estates. Similar avalanches partly de
stroved the Diamond. Pearl and san
jacques plantations.
The city Of Castcrics suffered some
what. chiefly from "A tidal wave. which
swept over half the town and wrecked
n portion Of Bay street. Thirtcer
lives were lost. The fill extent Of th'
damage has not been computed. bu
it is ihcomparably less than al -
: Vincent.
On the Island of Barbados.
! The hurricane struck the island o
Rarbadoes on the night Of the 10th
completely wrecking that fiat, expose
island. and sweeping away 1000
7 houses. while damaging thousand
more. This left threc-quarters Of III
: inhabitants homeless. over 100 pei
: sons were killed so far a known.
7 The city of Bridgeion was PARTIAL
7 destroyed. and the suburbs 81. Micf
= aeI and Bellevile were entirely demo
= ished All the shipping was wrecke
= or blown ont to sea.
The Desoiation Awful In the Country.
In the country the dcsolation Is nv
full. owing TO the destruction of u
provision grounds. on which the pop
lation depended.
. While all the parishes suffered. u
the greatest distress is in ST. Michae
4 Christ Church and st. Philip. All ii
sugar estates are damaged. and man
" of them are completely wrecked. Br
while the cultivation of cane has SUI
fered considerably. the cane has m
been totally ruined. MS AT first repor
ed. the damage not exceeding one-fif
- OF the cane. The total estimated dar
=, age. besides the loss from the cal
- crop and provisions. is about 81 500, o
= nj Barbadoes.