The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-17
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All the building along the dyke, Port
Royal. King and East streets were
! wiped out Order was soon restored III
| the city SO that the work of rescue
could be begun. The two regiments OF
| soldiers stationed in the city were call
ed on to do police duty and they seem u
| have performed this duty we'll Inc
banks and other places where Valuaples
| were stored were quickly guaroeu'
| There have been some reports OF loot
! ing but late advices say this was con-
fined chiefly to petty thievery and even
| this was speedily suppressed
| The general hospital which was not
! seriously damaged was soon filled with
| hundreds of the injured as were sew
/ eral temporary hospitals. When these
places were filled others of the injured
were taken out to boats in the haroor.
A camp for refugees was located oil;
| the race track and there several thou
sand negroes are now sheltered Thou-
sands of others are homeless and are
| camping in the surrounding country.
| Hotels, banks, churches and onlce
| buildings are, without exception, level
| ed in wreckage and ruins. The treasury
was damaged but is still standing. The
| city prison was destroyed, but none OIL
| the prisoners were injured and none
| escaped The Port Royal battery was
wrecked and two artilleryman there
were killed.
The people had a premonition of the
coming disaster in the shape of a Vlo-
lent wind storm. Their fears were rous-
e and many rushed from their homes
This undoubtedly saved many lives as
the people wern- still in the streets
when the earthquakes came. This is es-
pecia'ly true Of the whites and &C.
counts for the small loss of life among
II EN-. The loss of life was largest in
the poorer sections of the country, 50
that most of the victims are negr 3es:
Besides Sir James Ferguson, the
nT~
Wee Captains Constantine and Young,
of the Royal Mail Steamship service.
Other whites killed include Major
Hardiman, DIR. GiDDs Varley, DR.. Men
ier. DIR. Robertson ano wife, Miss Lock-
EFT r. Varley, J. w. M. Bradley and
four children of a family named Liv-
ingstone. Several others are reported
missing and are believed to be dead.
Many bodies have been buried with
out Identification. Scores of bodies are
still in the ruins and from a sanitary
point of view this causes alarm: Eff
forts to recover the bodies are going ON
all the tim.
While there is necessarily great con-
fusion the panic itself is over. The city
is partly under martial law. A late
dispatch reports the destruction of
the insane asylum and says hundreds
of lunatics escaped and are roaming at
large.
Thousands of homeless people, this
dispatch says, are sleeping in the streets
and parks, their principal food being
bananas. RAIN SnOulQ Idll, the SUI
fering is sure to be great.
The damage outside of Kingston is
reported as not being great.
Trains are running 70 Tichf1eld. Port
Antonio is reported little damaged and
Spanishtown the same
The Earth Is Restless.
London, Jan. 17.-That there is a
general state of unrest in the earth or
which the Jamaica disturbance was
only one instance is the belief of Prof.
g. e-,1s- -
tronomer at the Laibach observatory.
His instruments registered the Jamai-
can disturbances but gives other
proofs of terrestrial phenomena in the
shape of shocks elsewhere, hail storms
and rock falls.
Troubles of Telegraph Companies.
New York, Jan. 17.-Fhe Western
Telegraph company accepted messages
for all parts of Jamaica yesterday sub
ject to the sender's risk. AS to the
messages from the island, the COM
pany is experiencing much the. same
difficulty that confronted it during the
early hours of the San Francisco dis
aster. The city of Kingston is So great
~ disorganized by the calamity which
has overtaken it thai it is next to i'm
possible to find the persons to whom
messages are addressed whilst the
messenger service into the city from
the company's substation about five
miles from Kingston, is =. necessarily
SLOW. Many OF the messages WHICH
came through from the island yester-
day were fled at this substation, but
apparently a great many persons made
a 80 mile trip across country to the
cable landing at Holland bay. AS
nearly as the company can determine,
the employees in the cable office at
Kin gston after the destruction of the
building followed lines out of the city
and tested them until they were final
ly able to obtain a connection with the
Holland bay station The company
has not been able to gain any definite
regarding the casualties
or damage at Kingston Its lines rum
only to Havana and any bulletins that
come to them are sent by the en-
ployes of the Cuban submarine cable
which handles the Jamaica
business. The Western Union COM
panys ca BILE office here was visited |
yesterday by many inquirers after
friends and relatives in jamaica
The commercial cable company re-
fused yesterday to accept any mes
sages to Jamaica. It's cable is broken
somewhere near the Jamaica shore |
and it had no idea yesterday how long
it would take to repair the break