Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-01-22
KINGSTON VICTIMS
! MAY NUMBER 1,700.
LONDON DISPATCH SAYS 700
BODIES BURIED AND 1,o17
OTHERS IDENTIFIED.
EVANS REPORTS 400
DEAD ACCOUNTED FOR
Mutiny of 500 Prisoners at Peniten-
tiary Rumored-Good Order Pre-
/ walls in Stricken City Due to Land
ing of American Marines.

London, Jan. 21-A special dis
patch from Kingston, Jamaica, says:
"An official report just issued states
that over 700 bodies have been buried
at Kingston; that the remains OF 1,O17
other victims have been identified,
and that large number are still
missing"
There is no confirmation of this
large total of dead elsewhere, and it
is believed that the figures "1,0l7"
may be a cable error.
Evans Reports on Disaster.
Washington, Jan. 21.-The navy de-
partment has received the following
dispatch from Rear Admiral Evans,
dated on board the Maine, at Guam
tanamo, Cuba, January IS:
"Whipple arrived from Kingston to-
day with advices from Davis confirm
ing practical destruction of the city.
Business section destroyed. Fire fol-
lowed earthquake. Government resi-
dences in suburbs destroyed. Steam
ship wharves intact. Shipping I'M
harmed. Other foreign residences
seemed to have escaped. American
consul absent, Vice consul represent
ing. "Bluejackets guarding consul
ate possessions and guarding arch
ives. Indiana landed SO.
Report 500 Prisoners in Mutiny.
Reported mutiny at penitentiary
containing 500 prisoners. Governor
considers whole situation well in
hand. Four hundred and forty dead
accounted for. Still many bodies in
ruins. Many Americans sailed for
New York via steamer Prinz Fried
rich Heinrich on January II. Am
sending full extract of Davis report
over Cuban telegraph"
A dispatch has reached the state
department via Holland Bay, Jamaica,
from the United States Consul Sny-
der, at Port Antonio, which says:
mo casualties at Port Antonio. All
Americans safe; some property dam
aged here; people terrified; business
suspended"
Hurryins Relief to Kingston.
New York, Jan. 21.-News from
Kingston, Jamaica, is still filtering in
slowly and is "a hours late, but the
worst is now apparently known. The
town itself is wreck, very few of the
houses standing remaining habitable,
and the populace is living in the open.
Food and medical supplies continue
scarce, but relief ships are hurrying
to the stricken city from many quar-
tiers, so that there will soon be an
alienation in this respect
The death list is probably about
700, and the seriously injured, in hos.
pitfalls, number in the neighborhood of
500. Many others who were injured
are being cared for at their tempo
rary homes.
Progress is being made in clearing
away the debris. Dynamite is re-
sorted to in clearing away menacing
ruins.
American Marines Landed.
Good order prevails in the city.
Admiral Davis, who is in the harbor
with the battleships Missouri and In
diana, was called on for help in the
work Of policing the city, and he
promptly responded by landing ma
rines. These sea soldiers are now
picketing the streets and assisting
the British authorities in the mainte-
nance of order.
/. Approach to Harbor PeriIous.
All marines are warned that the
two lighthouses at the harbor en-
frances have been destroyed and that
the approach to the harbor at night
lis perilous. Another steamer ap-
preaching Kingston, and not knowing
the conditions is reported to have
suffered This is the Hamburg Amer
ican line steamer Prinz Ethel Fried
rich.
This vessel, according to a King
ston dispatch received by the press
early Saturday, is ashore near the
Prinz Waldemer and the Prinzessen
Louise, vessels of the same line,
which are stranded near where the
Plumb Point lighthouse was located.
No Americans Killed.
No Americans were killed, as a re-
suit of the disaster, despite the fact
that there were many American tour
lists in the place when the visitation
came. A large number of these tour
lists have taken refuge on the Amer
lean warships in the harbor while
awaiting ships that will take them
home.
American aid has been timely in
this hour of trouble to British pos
session and dispatches agree it is
warmly appreciated by the stricken
people.
Edgar De Cardova, the Jamaican
grain importer and plantation owner,
who was reported to have been killed
by the earthquake at Kingston, is
safe. This information was convey.
ed in cablegram from him to his
brother, Ercel De Cordova Of this
city.
Relief by American Ships.
Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. IL ode
layed).-The United States warships
Indiana and Missouri arrived this
morning from Guantanamo bringing
large quantities of medicines and
food. The torpedo destroyer Whip.
pie arrived during the night with a
'boatload of medicine, which was sent
ashore in charge of Surgeon McDon-,
aid. The cruiser Yankton is expect1
ed to arrive here soon.
Many of the Americans who were in
Kingston at the time of the disaster
have been taken aboard the WarshiD.
They intended to take passage for the
United States on board the Hamburg
American steamer Prinz Eitel Fried