The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-17

| iurieS SO 1dr as KNOWN no AIIlcTlCdIAS
have been killed or injured
Conditions Tersely Described.
Buffalo, \. Y. Jan. 1.-THE Ex-
press this morning publishes the fol-
lowing:
This cable dispatch came through
last night from Francis U. Kahle. evil
IDENTIFY from the temporary cable sta
ton at Bull Bay. outside of Kingston.
The dispatch no doubt was filed be-
fore the dispatches of the regular cor
respondents of the press service who
estimate the dead at a much lower
figure:''
Jamaica, Jan. 16.-Business at a
standstill. Sleep streets, parks. Five
hundred surely dead. Sixty-f1ve thou
sand homeless. Food. bananas. Troops,
stroyed. Hundred and eighty buried
Catholic ground, 1870 yesterday.
Sir Alfred Jones says natives will
work Panama. take places coolie labor
India. Want Canadian architect re-
built Natives refuse work.
Estimate loss $1O,0OO,0O0. Esti-
mated hundred whites dead.
Asylum destroyed. Insane at large.
Captain Young dead.
Halifax-Colon cable broken. I'm
mediate repairs impossible.
Captain Constantine dead.
Injured: Charles and Edward De-
cordva. ]. w. Middletowp. Bradley
Berti. Charles Sherlock and brother.
Miss Locket sullivan.
Manager nable says. 1000 dead.
Hennecky Heaton estimates dead
from 500 to 1000. Captain Lamont
dead; engaged American girl.
Streets filed with debris and dead.
Two terrific shocks yesterday; one to-
day.
Sir James Ferguson. instantly killed
in street.
Fire burned out.
Positive insurance carried by Nor
wich Union Insurance company, Eng
land $4,000.
People need tents. Great suffering
caused by rain.
Francis Kahle Buffalo, safe
Francis L. Kahle is manager of
the Woodward Chemical company.
HE sailed from New York jan
uary ..
til January 5. when they left for Trini-
dad. Mr.. Kahle was to meet them
there
Property Loss S1O,OOO.OOO.
London. Jan. IA dispatch from
Holland Bav. Jamaica, dated January
Is. says that the first earth shock at
Kingston. which occurred at 1925 p.
m. January IA. did all the damage, the
subsequent, lesser shocks having lit
tie effect Fires spread in three di-
rections. famed by strong wind
The firemen were handicapped owing
TO the absence of water.
The dispatch, after confirming the
that hundreds were killed,
burned to death or injured. says that
at least from 80 to 30 persons were
Myrtle Bank hotel. The devastated
region, the dispatch continues,
stretches from the wharves in the
southern part of the city to the race
course in the north, to the customs
house in the west and to Fleet street
in the east, containing all the principal
stores. banks and government offices,
all of which were wrecked, most of
them being levelled to the ground.
The sender of the dispatch does not
any looting or violence, ex-
cept in the case of a few rum shops
which were invaded by negroes.
The reports received here from st.
Thomas direct estimate the casualties
at Kingston at about 1000 killed, say
that some 5000 persons are homeless
and place the damage done at $1O,-
100000. Concerning the latter, while
the fire insurance companies repud-
late all liability, under the earthquake
clause in the policies. the marine in
surance societies are likely to be
pretty hard sufferers. the risk of fire
to merchandise, WharveS and ware
houses having been largely carried by
those companies of recent years, and
their policies do not appear to include
a clause exempting them from the re-
suit of earthquake. Owen Cosby
Phillips, NJ. P, chairman of the Royal
Mail Steam Packet company after a
long conference at the colonial Office
this morning regarding the immediate
measures to be taken for the relief of
the earthquake sufferers, cabled to
the company's agency in New York
as follows:
Relief measures should be carried
out only through and under the sane
tion of the governor of Jamaica who is
the best judge of the distress and the
best measures to be taken for alleviat-
ing it, and who will in any case bear
the responsibility
Sir Alfred Jones. Jesse Ceilings, NJ p,
and several other members of Sir AL
freds party, had remarkable escapes
from being buried in the ruins of the
Myrtle Bank hotel.
According to a dispatch received from
Holland Bay this morning, after lunch
ing at the hotel, Sir Alfred. Mr.. Ceilings
ana others went out on the pier at the
v ter front and amused themselves by
tossing coins into the water for the
negro divers
The visitors had just left the pier on
their way back to the hotel when, as
they reached the hotel lawn, the earth |
quake came and the hotel toppled over |
in ruins around the travellers. The pier
which they had just left also was des-
troyed
No Americans have been killed or in !
says that eight American tourists are |
among the missing
any of the natives are in danger OF /
starvation unless they receive immed- |
late attention
That portion of the town of Port |
loyal which sank two years ago is |
again under water.
Wind Spreads Flames.
New York, Jan. 17.-Accordins to the |
latest advices. Kingston was not des-
troyed, but nearly every building in the |
place sustained some damage Prac- |
ucally the entire business section. how |
ever was ruined by the quakes or by