Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-21
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beautiful botanical display. and they were
just remarking, said Mr.. ingalls,. what
magnificent Jay 1t was, when there came a
deep rumbling and the earth swayed under
their feet as though they were on the back
of some great animal
The noise was not SO loud at first as IT
was voluminous. There seemed to be
great depth to 1t. 1t was all around them
at once. menacing and ominous.
LAS soon as the first shock had passed
away" said Mr.. Ingalls,. we secured car
rage and drove as fast as possible back 10
the city, our one idea being to seek safety
on the ships in the harbor
.'All three of us had been staying at the
Myrtle Bank Hotel, in the center OF the
city, so we directed our driver to take us
there first. 1t was five miles from the bo-
tanical gardens to Kingston and 1t seemed
as If we would never get there. On every
side and across the road were fragments OF
houses, uprooted trees and every evidence
of the violence of the shock. We saw no
assures in the earth, although persons
whom we met told us of great cracks ana
seams that had opened in the country near
the city.
Horses Almost Dead.
cat last We came into the city, with the
Three blocks from the hotel we were forced
to leave the carriage, rubbish and dead
bodies obstructing the road. Telegraph
wires and street signs lay in tangled
masses, with bricks and the stone coplngs
from houses, patches of plaster walls ana
timber splinters piled on top of them.
Here ana there, as the eyes got accus-
toned to the strangeness OF the sight. we
saw human arms and legs protrudtng from
the debris, and once, worst of all, limp ,2
completely severed. The dead were all
negroes and We saw no injured white per-
sons until we got down to the sn1ps later,
The Myrtle Bank Hotel was in the shape
of the letter "U," with covered court
yard in the middle. When we got close
enough to see it, we found that the outer
walls had fallen completely away leaVhs
the interior of the rooms exposed. and the
glass and iron roof of the courtyard mad
dropped down into the gardens. In the
midst of that pile were dead men and Wom-
en- in dozens.
Saw American Killed.
While we were standing there negro
how came I'D greatly excited and told us
that he had seen an American named
Parker killed in the barber shop Of the
hotel
1.-The scenes about us were awful. but the
state of the hotel was worse.
ION our way down to the ships we passed
through crowds of panic-stricken negroes.
moaning and crying out that the judgment
day had come. They were alternately pray
ing and lying down in the streets in AFFECT
fear Nowhere did we see anybody trying to
calm them.
Down at the water front we found First
Officer Vahsel Of the Princess Victoria
Luise. which was still ashore at Port Royal.
in command Of launch that was carrying
the wounded and refugees out to the vessels
In the harbor He was badly wounded-he
had been in the German consulate when
the first shock occurred and had been
struck on the head by flying timbers-but
he stuck to the launch all night, carrying
people from the shore to the Port Kings
ton.
1--WE went on board the Port Kingston
and found we were In shambles. Sur
geons were working there rapidly and with
out cessation, constantly operating In that
one night Monday there were thirteen am
putations and fifteen persons died. Their
sufferings were horrible. .'-.s e-i1''
! "AH this time the city was burning in
several places at once.
I'VE went ashore at S o'clock the next
morning and found things even worse than
they had been the night before. On the
steamship pier where we landed the dead
were laid in hundreds, and among them
were the dying. 1t seemed that there were
many who must die before the surgeons
could reach them. We saw one surgeon
there-Walker. think his name was-who
they said. had been at work without stop
from o'clock the night before.
ION banana lighter that We passed in
the harbor there seemed to be nothing but
wounded and dead negroes.
''At 1906 o'clock midday there occurred
the last and the second most severe of the
shocks. The worst was the first one, that
started the fires. This last shock overturn-
ed most of the shattered walls of the build
ings that were little more than shells and
upset a number of old wharves. 1t also
started the coal burning in some of the
pockets on the water front.
Harbour street and King street, in the
middle of the business section, were COM
pletely wrecked. All the big stores were
demolished, and the stones that had COM
posed them obliterated all signs of streets
or sidewalks