The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-24
STRICKEN ISLANDS IN RUIN.
OVER THREE HUNDRED LIVES LOST
On ISLANDS OF LESSER ANTILLES.
Immense Destruction of Property
and Lives ON the Islands of 81.
Vincent, st. Lucia and HarbadOes.

KINGSTON. Jamaica, Sept. 23.-Maii adj
vices which reached here today brought
melancholy relief ~ the suspense regard
Ing the full extent Of the hurricane disas-
ter &t the islands OF s.. Vincent. St. Lucia
and BaEbadoes. showing that the first az
counts were not exaggerated.
~ s.. VINCENT aboac 800 lives were lost,
not counting the loss Of lie suffered
through the destruction of shipping. The
coast Is strewn with The wrecks OF vessels,
many Of which were from Barbados.
The storm ragged from 10 o'clock in the
morning. Sunday. September II. until 2
o'clock In the afternoon. completely
wreckinx the Island. At the capital King
ston. fully 30 houses were demolished
while the suburbs. C0xheath and Monte
b.iio weas obitHTated. Among the pr1Dci-
pal buildings destroyed are the Anglican
and Catholic chuFcnes, tue nns new hospl-
al and Fort Charlotte All the other pub
lc buildings were more or less injured.
Cioad5uTsts from the mountains swept
much or the ruins into the sea. as well as
several dead and injured persons.
Throughout the island the destruction
WAS IA wholesale scale, not only the
estates and buildings being RACED but Gull
tlvaion being obiierate2
The following towns and villages were
destroyed: Rose Place, Grand SABLE, Amos
vale. Mount Pleasant. Argyle. Wallllaho,
Earrouailio. Lyon and Ru.cam2nt. ana the
secard city. Georgetown. was considerable
damaged
No approximate estimate OF the pecua.ary
damage done has been reported, bat the
island is practically ruined.
~. Lucia suffered mostly from raln and
.ardslides. the deiuge lasting Ken hours,
cul de Sac and Rousseau valleys the cen
tars OF the cane and coCoauut valley, Were
converted into lakes and partly hllod win
debris from the mountains. which ruined
the crops, while many plantations elsewhere
aere wrecked Serious damage was SITS
tanned at Mormetabo. where precpltated
avalanche, three miles long, covered the
valley to the width OF mile overwhe.fn TX
Ruby and a couple OF other ISLANDS Similar
ayalanches partly destroyed the Diamond,
Pearl ana san jacques plantations.
The city OF CastrlcS suffered somewhat.
chiefly from tidal wave which swept over
half the town and wrecked a portion of the
bay street.
Thirteen lives were lost. The full extent
OF the damage has not get been computed,
but Il is incomparably less than ~ 81.
Vincent.
The hurricane struck the island of Bar
BADGES on the night Of the 10th inst. com
pletely wrccking that Hat exposed island.
and sweeping away 1869 houses. w1ile
damaging thousands more. Ii left three
quarters Of the iuha bi;aata homeless. over
100 people were killed. SO FAR a. known.
The city OF Brdgeton " as partly destroyed
and the suburbs. 81. Michael aud Belle
vile. were entirely demolished, In the
country toe desolation IL awful, owing 10
the destruction Of the provision ground on
which the population depended, while all
The parishes suffered, the greatest distress
| is in St Michael, ChrisIchufch ana st,
Philip.
The sugar estates are damaged and many
of them are completely wrecked. Eut
while the cultivation Of sane has suffere /
| considerably. the care has not been Totally
ruined ~ urst reported. TIE damage not
| exceeding onV-iifeh Of tho cane. The total
| estimated damage besides the Joss from the
zane crop ana provisions il about $l.l41.0v-
| al Barbados.