The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-05

almost entirely taken up by the injured
| men women and children They Wer'
| being sent to the improvised hospitals
| in Snanish City. An officer on duty a
| the train. who was experimenting thu
| nlacing on board, recognized me. H
was SO charming that I plucked III
| sufficient courage to tell Of my plight
| He at once gave me permission tt
hoard the train with my mother ant
Mr.. Longley, saying he was sure thai
| 7 could be of inestimable service In
| caring for the injured. 1t was trair
| of death and woe.
| .E,royn every ear came the cries OF in
iured persons and the groans of the
| semi-unconscious. 1t was awful. There
were many who were literally swathed
| in bandages from head to foot. Moth
ers although badly hurt themselves
held manned little ones on their arms.
1.-THE jolting of the coaches over the
rough railway served to aggravate the
sufferings of those on board. just
ahead a wrecking crew was actively
engaged in repairing tracks that had
been twisted out of place by the quake.
and therefore the progress of the train
was painfully slow.
1.-The railroad turned and twisted
snakelike in a hundred different ways,
passing through tunnel after tunnel.
The night was dark and dismal. and
if ever / felt like crying it was then,
with so much suffering about me and
Door little me and a handful of nurses
and surgeons to take care of the
earthquake victims. At every tunnel
entrance we knew we were probably
entering into death There was no tell
ing what the quake had done there.
WANTED TO STAY.
1T took that train an hour to run
to Spanish City, but it seemed to me
a day. Assisted by Mr.. Longiey, l
moved among the injured, replacing
bandages or binding wounds or other
injuries with fresh ones. 1t was try
ing work and L wonder now how I
survived the terrible ordeal.
lat Spanish City the injured were
slowly taken from the train and car
ried to the hospitals. 1 wanted to stay
there, but I was warned that I was
overtaxing myself and had to think
of mother.
SLOWLY we moved toward Port An
tonic from Spanish City, passing
through the many tunnels and over the
serpentine tracks for which the rail-
roads of Jamaica are noted. We final
ly made Port Antonio and were glad
dened by the sight Of the Admiral Far
ragut still lying there. We lost no
time in boarding her, and here we are
safe and sound, almost home.
But / can not shut out the thought
of those poor unfortunateS back there,
and many of them homeless and penni~
less. 1 am sure when the American
people realize the distress there their
hearts will be moved and their purses
opened once more"
1t was Miss Turner's first visit to ia
maica and she says she thinks she has
had enough of foreign climes. She sail
ed from New York on December 20 last
with her mother, on board the Admiral
Schley, bound to Kingston. Her mother
has been to Jamaica twice before. and
it was her vivid description of the
beautiful West Indian island that
caused her daughter to accompany her
on the trip from which they returned
with such fortune yesterday.
CROWD KNELT IN PRAYER.
While buildings and houses at Port
Antonio rocked in the earthquakes
grasp like vessels tossed helplessly
about by a storm-lashed sea, while
walls fell with a terrifying crash and
great assures appeared in the ground.
the natives fed into the streets and
squares, and in great crowds fell upon
their knees in prayer. With the ground
literally shaking beneath them they
in devotional attitudes while
conducted open-air services
according to the Protestant Episcopal
and Roman Catholic rituals.
At the Tichfield Hotel, where ceilings
collapsed and furniture was overturn-
ed by a rapid succession of shocks, the
G. E. Grabow, Gained his
frightened guests with remarkable
presence of mind by ordering the or
chestra to play soothing airs.
These We're but few of the unusual
incidents that marked the earthquake
as it affected Port Antonio, according
to the stories told by members of a
party of tourists from the Middle West
who We're among the refugees from
Jamaica on board the Admiral Far
ragut.
In this party were Mr.. and Mrs.
GUNNER and Miss B. Louney of Cleve-
land; B. G. Chapman, Jr., and Mrs. B.
G. Chapman, Sr., of Detroit, and Mrs. |
r. B. Higbie, of ST. Louis.
ST hardly know where to BEGIN" Mrs. |
Gunner said. ct was all so sudden |
and so terrible. I was attiring my
self for dinner in my apartments at |
the Tichfield Hotel, when suddenly |
felt a tremor that caused the perfume |
bottles and other articles on my toilet |
table to rattle. The vibration became |
more and more pronounced and then |
there seemed to me to be a great crash |
The room shook like toy in the hands |
Of a child and great pieces of plaster |
fell from the ceiling and walls. I was |
struck on the head by the falling de-
bris and choked by the cloud of dust |
Mnm2n and CirIc