Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-09-29
THE WRECKED ISLANDS.
Awful Destruction of Life and Prop
erty at st. Vincent, St.
Lucia and Barbados.
TOWNS AND VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY.
More Than Three Hundred Lives Lost ON
St. Vincent Island, Thirteen at st. Luz
ola and Hundred at Barbadoes-The
Coasts strewn with Wreckage and the
Town Sites with Razed Houses.

Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 24.-Mail
advices which reached here yesterday
brought melancholy relief to the sus-
pense 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.
More Than Three Hundred Lives Lost on
st. Vincent Island.
At ST. Vincent about 800 lives were
lost, not counting the loss of life suf-
fered through the destruction of ship
ping. The coast is strewn with the
wrecks of vessels, many of which were
from Barbados.
The storm which ragged from 10
o'clock on Sunday, September II, I'M
til 2 o'clock in the afternoon, COM
pletely wrecked the island.
Reads Like Fairy Tale of Destruction.
At the capital, Kingston, fully 200
houses were demolished; in the sub
urbs, Coxheath and Montebello were
oblitered. Among the principal build
ings destroyed are the Anglican and
Catholic churches, the fine new hos
-
lie buildings were more or less in
jured.
Cloud-bursts from the mountains
swept much of the ruins, as well as
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 RACED
but cultivation being obliterated.
Towns and villages Destroyed.
The following towns and villages
were destroyed: Rose Place, Grand
Sable, Aronsvale, Mount Pleasant, Ar
gyle, Wallilabo, Barrouallie, Layon
Buccament, and the second city,
Georgetown, was considerably dam
aged.
No approximate estimate of the Pc
cuniary damage done has been
reached, but the island is practically
ruined.
On the Island of ST. Lucia.
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
cultivation, were converted into lakes
and partly filled with debris from the
mountains, which ruined the crops,
while many plantations were wrecked.
An Avalanche Three Miles Long and One
Mile Wide.
Serious damage was sustained at
Mormeta bao, which precipitated an av-
alanche three miles long, covering the
valley to the width of mile and over
whelming Ruby and couple of other
estates. Similar avalanches partly de-
stroyed the Diamond, Pearl and San
Jacques plantations.
The city of Casteries suffered some
what, chiefly from a tidal wave, which
swept over half the town and wrecked
portion of Bay street. Thirteen
damage has not been computed, but
it is incomparably less than at ST.
Vincent.
On the Island of Barbados.
The 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. This left three-quarters of the
inhabitants homeless. Over 100 per-
sons were killed so far as known.
The city, of Bridgeton was partially
destroyed, and the suburbs ST. Mich
ae1 and Belleville were entirely demol-
ished. All the shipping was wrecked
or blown out to sea.
The Desolation Awful In the Country.
In the country the desolation is aw-
full, owing to the destruction of the
provision grounds, on which the popu-
1ation depended.
While all the parishes suffered, the
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 suf-
fered considerably, the cane has not
been totally ruined, as at first report
ed, the damage not exceeding one-fifth
of the cane. The total estimated dam
age, besides the loss from the cane
crop and provisions, is about 81, SOC, 900
NJ Rar