Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-12

local merchants are dolng all they can to
relieve the distress
AZ other small seaports the situation Is
quite as desperate as at Port Antonio,
and IN the interior scarcely a peasant S
mouse has been left standing. Even the
substantial stone homes OF the planters
have been unroofed. The rude shan.
hes OF fallen trees, palm branches and
banana leaves which the peasants have
erected Tor temporary protection from
we elements have been OF little value IN
the continued unsettled weather, with its
occasional t0rrential storms
EHorts are being made at Kingston BIZ
means Of subscriptions for food and build
ing material to ameliorate these sad CON
dltions, but unless immediate shipments
Of food stunts come from the United
states deaths by starvation are Inevitable
Inc people OF the United States respond
ed 50 nobly 10 the call from Martinique
ana ~. Vincent after the awful eruption
OF Mont Pelee and La soufriere that the
distracted Jamaicans feel that they have
some reason TO expect u similar apprecla-
uon OF their present needs by the open
handed republic 10 the north,
Aside from the actual physical suf.
fering Of the III fated Jamaicans, thou
sands of whom have been lncapacltated
by injuries Incident 60 the tornado, the
industries OF tho island have received a
blow from which 1t Will take them years
70 recover, II Is thought that the destruc-
$4,000, All the banana, cocoanut coffee.
sugar and other plantations OF the east
ern part OF the Island have been hopeless
~ wrecked, and agriculture is paralyzed.
me starving peasants not only have no
food, raimont or shelter, but they have no
way OF earning money to got these things.
fort ANTONIO, the jamaican hoadquar-
lefs OF the United Fruit company, had
recently become a thriving port Ia
whaIfs were always busy, and II was
company's steamers to be there al one
ume The oompany'a hotel at Port An.
tonic the Hotel TiChheld, was one of
lhe best IN jamaica, II was a large pie
luresque building with all modern ac-
cehsorlea standing on an eminence over
looking tho harhor Last winter il was
SO crowded with tourists that word was
sent TO the oompnny's Boston Office that
NJ more guests could he accommodated.
me adjacent fruit plantations were more
10 shcw The traveller what PORT Antonio
mas been, The hotel wharfs. Offices and
plantations are all gone, Five OF the big
llult steamers were driven ashore and
partially wrecked. Blk houses only were
s'hhdlnf after the storm had passed
Port Maria, lively little seaport of b. 900
Inhabitants, on the north coast 80 miles
rom IOrt Antonio, directly across the
island from Kingston. was wiped out of
existence Inc eity was the port OF entry
were many sailing vessels IN the harbor
when the hurricane descended upon M
They were all wrecked.
Az Kingston which escaped the worst
OF we disaster, thousands OF houses were
damaged, wharfs battered and several
coasung sch00nors sunk Rivers through,
out the island burst their banks. adding
To the destruction caused by the wind
Sn'{ the edgo of the tornado struck the
l7lanu al hrst, ana II was thought tho
Il IA Ia.
Neered 20 return and wre0k vengeance on
"a population whose fears had been set at
rest ana most OF whom werc IN bed The
srcat Wondcg Is that the Hist OF those
Milea outright was so small--about "a
hundred hairbreadth escapes without
number have been reported. The lig6t
character of the dwellings OF the poorer
ptuplo seems 20 have been the only rea-
son why they were not all slain
Jamaica belongs TO Great Britain and
ues about 10 miles south OF cuba, N6
miles northeast OF Colon and almost I'm "a
direct line from Colon Go New York Tbo
Island 10 ia miles long, with a greatest
Wdin OF 81 miles and narrOwest width
OF AR II was across this narrowest
tlrlp' between Kingston and Annotto Inv.
mat the fun fore OF tho hurricane was
lett After crossing the Island Al snont
lls force az sea 10 the great relief OF tho
CuDuhs, who had been warned by tho
weather bureau az Washington to prepare
The interior OF tho island is fun OF ei-
gantlc mountains rising almost ont of no
ssa IL was IN these mountains that ths
MaroQns, escaped slaves, took refuge i'm
we eighteenth century. and there they
maintained themselves SO strongly mai
We government was finally constrained "a
grant them the freedom which they mad
already won. The lowlands on ali ths
coast are exceedingly fertile. esneclailv In
regard TO the growth OF fruits.
nUaH h. -
tho great source ~ Jamaica's prosncrity
such as Il was, Tho fruit goes chieay Ia
me United States. For years the leading
planters had confined THAR anarts ~ tha